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It's been a motion by councilman Aguirre, seconded by vice mayor Jackson, a reconvene an open session. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please have no a saying aye. All right, all those say nay. The ayes have it, Councilman McGuirey. Mr. Mayor, I move that City Council adopt the resolution regarding the closed executive session that was previously circulated to the council. Has been a motion by Councilman McGuire, seconded by Councilman Chapman to approve the resolution that previously circulated the council and he further discussion. You're not as a roll call, Madam Clerk. Please call the roll. Councilman McGuirey. Councilman Chapman. All right. Mayor Wilson. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Okay, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Good evening, everyone. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you for joining us tonight. We are happy to have you here. We are going to begin as we always do with a moment of silence followed by the Plunge of Allegiance. So if you are able, please stand for the moment of silence followed by the plunge. Thank you. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic through which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, Madam Clerk, number four. Reading and acting upon the minutes of the following meetings of City Council, the special meeting minutes of May 1, 2024, May 14, May 18, and May 28. Okay, we have the minutes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Motion by Councilman Chapman. Seconded by Councilman Gaskins. Any further discussions? It's the left side. It's always, I never know. So any further discussion on approving the minutes? Hearing none, all those in favor, please recognize. I. I, all of those say nay. The eyes have it. Opposed say nay. The ayes have it. The minutes are approved. Madam Clerk, number six. Presentation of a proclamation, recognizing the recipients of the Alexandria Historical Society History Awards. Okay, Councilman Chapman's going to present this. If the folks involved in this presentation can please come on down to the front. We would love to have you join us. We don't bite often. So hard, yeah. All right. Hello, hello, hello. It's not working. No. That's not working. No. There we go. All right. Good evening, everybody. I think one of the beauties of Alexandra particularly, as we turn 275 years is that we have developed a great community of what I like to call community historians. People that may or may not have professional experience in history, but love it in such great detail that they're willing to put lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of time into the study of it and explaining it for us now here in the present. And so it gives me great pleasure to read a proclamation about the latest awardees of our Historical Society awards. And so I'll read the proclamation and I'll allow each of you to introduce yourselves. Whereas the Alexandra Historical Society recognizes individuals and organizations who have made a difference in the research, preservation and interpretation of Alexandra's history through its awards program. And this year it is fitting to acknowledge three such individuals whose bodies of work deserve acknowledgement and accolades. And they shall be listed accordingly. Whereas Dr. Abbey Schreiber, please, I apologize for my setup. Through her research and on the history of the Alexander Waterfront, has enriched the city's understanding of this key location and provided valuable information for future flood mitigation efforts. And whereas John H. Sprinkle, PhD, through his service on the Alexandria Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission, the Board of Architectural Review, the Historical Alexander Foundation, and the Alexander Historical Society, and through his work as a historian for the National Park Service Service has advanced the cause of preservation and enhanced our understanding of the history of the preservation movement. And whereas Amy Birch, through her research, excuse me, through her research work for the city of Alexandria and her past work for the Alexandria Historical Society has enriched the city's understanding of many aspects of its history. And whereas the T. Michael Miller Award and the Special Merit Award are given to the organizations and individuals and individuals who have made a difference in the preservation, research, and interpretation of the city's vast, dynamic and complex history. Now therefore, I John Taylor Chapman on behalf of Justin M. Wilson Mayor of the city of Alexandria, Virginia, and on behalf of the entire City Council, do hereby honor Dr. Abbey Birch as the 2024 recipients of the T. Michael Miller Award. And the City of Alexandria, and I call this observation to the attention, to the attention of all of our citizens. And witness whereof, I have herein to set my hand and cause the seal of the City of Alexandria to be a fixed 11th day of June, 2024. Congratulations to each of you. And as you introduce yourself, if you could give us a brief little context about in the year of the year. I'm going to say that I'm going to be a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit of a little bit more of a little bit of a little bit more of a little bit of a little bit more of a little bit of a little bit more of a little bit of a little bit more of a little bit of a little bit more of a little bit of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more of a little bit more I actually worked for the city. I'm not at the Office of Historic Alexandria anymore, but it was actually when I was at the police department that I first got involved in doing historical studies and researching the police department. But it was when I began to learn about a man named Oswald Durant who we have a community center named for. And I realized his experiences as an African American were unlike anything I had ever learned. It changed how I saw everything. I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the time, and I was a student at the research. So thank you. Amy's a rock star. You are. Yeah, thank you. I am John Sprinkle and it's been my pleasure to be here in Living in City for quite a while. I have served on any number of commissions and at one point when I was the chair of the long-name Commission or the hardest working commission. They were in August. Oh, OK. OK. Anyway, sorry. We don't either. Oh, they do. Yeah. Anyway, I learned that the Loid House, where OHA as a headquarters is actually owned by the Long Name Commission. And it was through a grant program running in the 1960s where easements were in such for anywhere long story short. I went, how did this happen? And research continued, and that's how things get on. So the muses came down and inspired me that way, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Abby Schreiber. I was a history major in college, and now I'm a professional historian. So, dream come true, I guess. But I'm with the city for one more day and then I'll be moving on to other things. So it's really exciting to be able to work for the city and to work on this project. Sorry. Sure. Hi everybody. I'm Scott Virick. I'm on the board of the Alexandria Historical Society. I chair our awards committee. I have the wonderful task of going through all the nominations, seeing all the great work people are doing to preserve research and interpret this city's past. I have the much more challenging task of working with the rest of the committee to pick out the winners from all these great nominations. But I think we did good this year. All three of them incredible, incredible historians and researchers really speaking to all the ways that history reflects our community and forms our community. So just thank you all for the work that you do. And in terms of how I got into history, I read a biography of George Washington in third grade, majored in it, got a job in history, and then these guys, Vaughan, told me to join the board. And here I am. Yeah, actually that's true. I'd forgotten about that, but we did. Yes, Linda Lovell, I'm on the board of the Alexandria Historical Society, and I do a bit of volunteer work for the Office of Historic Alexandria. I see that Councilman Chapman is laughing at that, but I do a little bit of work. So. I'm Peggy Harlow. I'm also on the board of the Alexandria Historical Society amongst other things. And like Linda, I have a serial volunteer historically speaking. I also want to invite everyone to the next Alexandria Historical Society event, which is on June 26th. Wednesday night, it's the talk about the history of the Alexandria Fire Department. It's celebrating its 275th anniversary also. Yes. Thank you very much. And we're going to move the proclamation. All right. There's a motion by Councilman Chapman to approve the proclamation. It's been seconded by Vice Mayor Jackson. Let me share my own words to all three of you. Dr. Schreiber, Dr. Springgull and Ms. Birch. You're all rock stars in your own respective ways. And we thank you for all three of you for the rich contributions that you make to interpreting Alexandria's history. And I would note that for all three of you, you have found ways to bridge our history and to stuff that we're working on today and some of the future projects that await us. And I think that is what is drawn people to our city for so long. It would continue to make Alexandria a special place. It would make us different from a lot of other communities around here, without naming any other jurisdiction around here. But we thank you for the work that all of you do. And thanks to the Historical Society for recognizing folks who are doing great work in interpreting our history and our community. So we really appreciate the work of the society in recognizing rock stars. Like these three. So you guys have a band? No, no, no, there we go, there we go. Amy's in the band. All right. There is a motion in a second and any further discussion on the proclamation hearing none. All those those in favor, please from noise saying aye. Aye, on the same name. The ayes have it. Congratulations, all three of you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. We're going to do a picture, so move on in here, and we'll all stand up. So. Sarah, stand up. Every time it's kind of a It's a tradition. It's a tradition. We always. All right. Madam Clerk, number seven. Presentation of a proclamation recognizing Patricia Washington upon her retirement from physics, Alexandria. All right. Come on. There? All right. We have to vote on this, by the way. So, well, no. It's still in some, it's in some doubt, right? It wasn't posted, Craig. Yeah, we're going to have to delay this by another year or something. Well, come on down. Come on down. So I understand we already had a dry run on this proclamation when I was out of the country. So let me, before I read the proclamation as I believe most people probably surmised we are recognizing an important retirement from our city family as Patricia Washington is going to be retiring or is retired at this point already right? And when's your last day? Into the month. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So not quite yet, not quite yet. But is retiring from her leadership, distinguished leadership at visit Alexandria. And you know, when the pandemic hit and so much of the things that bring people to our community, and so much of the things that bring people to our community were shut down. We had a moment where so many folks were forced to kind of take stock of what draws them to our community and for our residents, what is exciting about our community and what employees, many of the folks in our community and for our residents what is exciting about our community and what employees many of the folks in our community. And I think it was an important moment for us to just kind of say, wow, look at, look at what we're all dealing with. And I think specifically during that period, your leadership was so important in helping us bring that part of our economy back. And now as we look back on that period, we are dealing with a really roaring response by our visitation of businesses. And I think it's in no small part to your leadership, both in keeping those businesses afloat during that period of time, but also in what we've done in the aftermath. And I think throughout your tenure, you have worked to take a part of our economy and helped it thrive and grow. And I don't think most Alexandrian's fully appreciate that how important Patricia's leadership and the work that visit Alexandria does, not just financially, because obviously every penny that you all bring in is a penny that does not have to be collected from our taxpayers. And so certainly right now, June 15th, everyone has to make a real estate tax payment. So I think folks should have a special appreciation for the work that all of you do. But it's also about building community. And so we are so in debt to your amazing leadership of this organization. You lead and leave incredibly large shoes to fill. But we are very lucky for the work that you've done for so long. So on behalf of my colleagues, I just want to say, and I'm very lucky for the work that you've done for so long. So on behalf of my colleagues, I just want to say, and I'm going to read the proclamation here in a second, but on behalf, I just want to say thank you, and certainly on behalf of our residents, that we are so lucky to have had your leadership for so long. And I'm going to let these folks talk in a second, which will make it worse. But let me read the proclamation first. You get the last word, by the way, on this. Whereas the city of Alexandria, Virginia, is a major travel destination in the world over. It's combined offering of history, commerce, and culture among its top draws for visitors. And combining these three entities successfully in the travel industry is no small feat. And requires great and resourceful leaders. Whereas Patricia Washington, President and CEO of Visit Alexandria is one such leader. And whereas her leadership and collaboration approach has strengthened in advanced city-wide partnerships for the betterment of community and economy. And whereas during her 12-year tenure of Washington has led Visit Alexandria, the nonprofit, visitor marketing organization for the city of Alexandria to achieve extraordinary milestones for the city's economy, including record visitors spending, hotel occupancy, consumption tax revenues, press hits, website visitation, digital marketing impressions, and event attendance under her ages. Visit Alexandria has been instrumental to revenue generation in the city of Alexandria with sales, meals, and lodging tax receipts growing from $55 million to more than $84 million per year. Non-resident tax contributions now save the average Alexandria household more than $750 per year in taxes. Not many people that can make that claim. And whereas the telling of Alexandria's African-American experience and integral part of our city's history and existence has expanded through her part of our city's history and existence has expanded through her partnering with the city's office of historic Alexandria, the drop-in and expand your ALX campaigns or demonstrations of her pioneering creativity. And whereas under her leadership, a newly developed national media relation strategy has generated extensive coverage and earned Alexandria top rankings as a travel destination. Last year, the city was recognized by travel and leisure among the best places to travel. It was also voted by Conday Nass Traveler as a 2023 top three best small city in the United States. And this year her mentorship guided her staff to win the 2024 PRSA and in our city. I call this observance to the attention of all of our citizens. I extend to her every good wish today. On the occasion of her upcoming retirement after a lengthy and story career. I'm going to be here to say a little bit about the city of Alexandria. I'm going to be here to say a little bit about the city of Alexandria and I call this observance to the attention of all of our citizens, and I extend to her every good wish today on the occasion of her upcoming retirement after a lengthy and story career. In WitnessWara, I have herein to set my hand and cause a seal of the city of Alexandria to be affixed this 11th day of June 2024. Sorry, that's my phone. All right. All right. There you go. This is for you, congratulations. Thank you so much. Woo! Woo! Thank you. Thank you. And I'm going to let these folks introduce themselves, and you can appoint a spokesperson among yourselves, too. So all right, you want to start at that end? Or you want to do your job? OK, and then we'll work our way up. Hello. My name is Alexis Colton. I'm an intern at Visital Exantria. And it was very exciting for me to take on this position. And I'm so thankful for Patricia and for everyone who has been so amazing. Visital Exantria is the best place you will ever work. And this is just a plug for Visit Alexandria and go to Port Side Festival because that will be on the 21st and 22nd of June. That brings intense of thousands of people to Alexandria every year. Please come because there will be food and music and activities and beer. So, and yes, so I love Patricia and she has known me since I was this little. So yeah. I'm having a crush. Okay. Hi, my name is Rianne and from I am the Manager of Administration at Visit Alexandria. I think all of you guys know me. You probably don't, but I, now you can see why I never want to let her go by the way. She is incredible. So I've been at Visit Alexandria for about two and a half years now and I've already shed enough tears in the past week about Patricia Leving, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to shed some more right now. I just want to say thank you so much for everything that you have done at Visiting Alexandria prior to my joining the team and everything that you have done since. I, Patricia, was the last person for me to interview with during my interview process for my current job. And that was the first thing that I thought about when we were celebrating you at your retirement party last week, and I just started breaking down in tears because I thought about the just overwhelming sense of warmth and welcoming that I felt from you, just talking to you on Zoom. And then being here at Visit Alexandria has honestly been life changing. That sounds kind of cheesy, but it has been, I love my city so much. And thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve it. So yeah. Hi, everyone. Good evening. My name is Susanna. I'm a part of the Visit Alexandria Sales Team. Being under Patricia's leadership, a woman in leadership has been a gift. She's obviously imprinted our community in so many positive ways. She's imprinted our staff in so many positive ways. And individually she has just kind of set the bar real high on what to do in your future and how to be an outstanding leader. So thank you for everything. Hi, I'm Melanie. I'm the Vice President of Member and Visitor Services and I've been here with Patricia the whole 12 years and I'm also going to try not to cry. She's an amazing leader. And I'm also going to try not to cry. She's an amazing leader. It's been incredible. And I'm so happy that you'll still be in the area. Hi, everyone. I'm Vita Fury, the VP of Marketing and Research at Visit Alexandria. I've been at Visit Alexandria for 11 years, so most of the whole time. And yeah, I'll certainly echo something close to what Marie Ann said is that Patricia's leadership has been, you know, career and life changing for me. And what I've been able to learn, not just about marketing, coming from someone that actually didn't start with a marketing background, but also about what it means to do community partnerships and engagement and building a team that is very collaborative and it has a great chemistry and and the setting of vision and that's something that there's really not a better leader than Patricia in doing that so Congratulations to you on this on behalf of the whole team some of them that can't be here tonight. Thank you Thank you so much to my team, to City Council, to the Mayor, to City Manager. This is my work family. This is my family, this is my home, Alexandria, and it's just been a privilege and an honor to serve in this role with such a stellar team. Our team is just the best in the business. So I appreciate each and every one of them. Thank you so much. I just want to say that all of the strides that we've made over these 12 years would not have been possible. Number one, without an incredible community. I mean, following from the awardees that we just heard from, our own community is so rich in terms of volunteer commitment, love, and engagement in our city, but it wouldn't be possible without our incredible tourism and hospitality community, our local restaurants, local boutiques and shops, hotels, attractions, museums, our city agencies that work hand in hand with visit Alexandria on evolving and expanding and enhancing the visitor experience. All of our departments, I just have done a phenomenal job. I was just mentioning to Carl earlier that we just received another acculate from architectural digest that speaks to... 30 minutes ago. Right, I can't believe this. Very good. But that speaks to just the collaborative effort and excellence of our city, in our city departments. At architectural digest, named us one of the top, 73, oh, King Street, as one of the top, 73 streets in the world, in the world. And that's because of the tremendous vision and work for many years to create historic commercial card that is just authentic, vibrant, abuzz with the entrepreneurship and innovation and excellence of our community, just emblematic of that. So I just want to thank Mayor Wilson and the entire City Council because all of these strides in terms of revenue generated, acculates, our marketing engine, I mean, Vito has done a phenomenal job building this engine and sophisticated marketing machine and again, all of our departments, sales, membership, just delivering for our local businesses, for our local community, delivering every day, making those connections and engaging our community as broad as it is. But none of this would be possible without city leadership that gets it, that believes in the ROI of tourism marketing, that is absolutely 100% behind our organization and supportive. Mayor Wilson, oh my gosh, thank you so much. Mayor is also a former member of our board. Thank you for your support through the years. All of our city councilman, our current board member, Vice Mayor Amy Jackson, has been incredibly supportive. Thank you, each of our councilmembers, councilman McPike, councilman women, gaskins, councilman Chapman. In the trenches with us in terms of history and just expanding our efforts around African-American history and history in general, councilwoman. Yes, so badly, councilwoman, oh my gosh, being so supportive and always, what I love about our counsel, you engage us. You provide us with ideas. This is a connection. This is an idea that you can take forward, I love it. And I think that's really exemplified through our relationship with counsel man Aguirre, who has over the years provided constructive criticism. So has been involved. Oh, and also, wait a minute, Councilwoman Gaskins also helped us develop the Expand Your ALX campaign as did Councilman Aguirre helping us to expand in deep in our Spanish language campaign in a real way. And all of that is exemplified through all of our campaigns that promote the city as a whole, all of the neighborhoods of the city. So, thank you so much for this honor and recognition and city manager, city manager, James Parishan, you've been incredibly supportive since you've been here and of our team, of our efforts. I appreciate it so much. Thank you so much for your support, your leadership. It's generally appreciated. Thank you to all the department heads who are in the audience tonight. Thank you for your colleague ship and your friendship and support. I really appreciate everyone's support of Visit Alex, Andrea. And our efforts, thank you. Congratulations. I will entertain a motion to approve the proclamation. There's a motion by Councilwoman Gaskin seconded by Vice Mayor Jackson. Any further discussion on the proclamation before the picture. Oh, let'll take a picture. All right. He won't take a picture before we vote on the proclamation. All right. Take a picture. He wants to say something. Take a picture. All right. Cool. Here we go. All right. One, two, three. All right. Councilman Chapman. Thank you. I'll try to keep it short because I know you've gone on. I think I would be remiss if I did not kind of explain kind of why folks continue to say you have changed your lives. I'm sorry. As many of you know. As many of you know, I started a tour company, 2016. But what folks may not know is in 2012, I sat down with Patricia at the Lorian, the wine bar, to talk about being a new council member and her position here and... Did you pay? I did. I did. I did. It's not very clear. But in that meeting with her, she changed my life. Because she talked about the urgent need to talk about the African-American story. And it wasn't one of these one-offs about needing to add something new to Alexandria's plate. It was about the fact that we had such a rich history about needing to add something new to Alexandria's plate. It was about the fact that we had such a rich history that we were not sharing. And as a native Alexandria, it inspired me to add another thing to my plate because it was so necessary to tell that story. And I think from everything I've heard from staff, from community members, you've been such a cheerleader for not just the community, but the people and the stories in the community. It's not just African-American history that you've just done this for, but I think we've seen and natives who have been here and folks who have been working in building up that history have seen how you really shined and allowed a light to shine on what we have here. We've had people working on African American history for decades in the city, but never have had the ability to place that African American history in the context of the that African-American history in the context of the importance of our local history with the national story. And it wasn't until you made that a priority, not just from a city perspective, but a regional perspective. Us telling our story, our full history, that it really changed lives and the trajectory of so many here. And I know for me, I think when I met you in 2012, I wanted my legacy to be behind this day, but now, upon meeting you and doing and working with you in tourism, I really hope my legacy is telling the story of other African Americans. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you in tourism. I really hope my legacy is telling the story of other African-Americans. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Chapman. All right. We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? Councilman Geary. That's very hard to follow. I'm not going to be anywhere near as emotional, but you know. And I know a councilman Chapman and the mayor have been with you for, you know and I know Councilman Chapman and the mayor have been with you for you know good good decade but I have always felt very welcomed by you I'm always felt it was an open place to have conversation and discussion and I've always appreciated all the work that you guys do because it's not easy. And the ability that we've had to diversify and adjust and pivot is real testament to your skill and the leadership that you have built up within your team as well. And just super, super proud of it and always brag about you whenever we go to conferences and stuff, because people start talking, and I see people winning these awards. So I'm like, we did that like five years ago. You know, and just as we say in Alexandria, you know, we're always, punching above our weight and everything. So it's really proud of our team, really proud of you, because I always felt bad when you would show us that slide. It's like, here's our team and how much money we get. Do we have to fight again? But again, just testament to how much your efforts and your team's efforts have proven, you know, what you guys have been doing. And I'm just glad that I was able to be a fly on the wall sometimes and able to contribute to some of the conversation. So thank you again. Thank you, Councilman DeGurie. All right, we have a motion in a second, any further discussion? Hearing none, all is in favor, please come to my saying aye. I, all opposed to saying aye. The ayes have it. Congratulations, best wishes to my saying eye. I, all opposed to saying name. The eyes have it. Congratulations. Best wishes on what is next. All right. Madam Clerk. Or reports from members of Council on Board's commissions and committees. Northern Virginia Transportation Commission Councilman McGuirey. Councilman McGuirey. Councilman McGuirey. Where did that fall? Do you have a... My colleague, Councilman Rebecca, was also present. I just wanted to say, it's incorrect. So as always at MVTC, we have our Womada update. I think, you know, the big news is that we had the first DMV moves meeting yesterday on June 10th at the Arlington board chambers and from what I understand it was a good conversation because what we're trying to do is figure out one, how are we funding in Wal-Mata for the future and two, how do we make it easier for folks to be able to travel across the entire region. So transferring not just from one model bus to VRE, to the water taxi, to Metro, and to Mark, and everything in between. So trying to facilitate that in a way that really works for the region and making sure that we can pay for all of it. Also, the big thing that Commissioner Luterno brought up was trying to build out a contingency fund for Ramada because this will actually help with the bond rating as well. The last go around going to the bond agencies. This was a point of conversation. And most of our localities all have some type of contingent fund. So to help with our bond rating at Womata, this was something that we were going to explore. And hopefully, you know, we'll not hopefully. We will have a public policy put into place for all of the localities to take a look at, make some decisions on, and then hopefully move forward with. The other two things that kind of start out in my mind, we got an update on the Route 7 BRT Strategic Implementation Plan, which is now moving into the phase, which will be from seven corners and barely crossroads down to the Mark Center. So this is where we are going to be really involved as a city, in Alexandria, to be able to show the benefits but also to get input to be able to form ultimately what this is going to look like in our one-mile stretch that we're going to have but it's going to be a powerful one-mile stretch because the city will reap a lot of benefit from having this BRT that's going to run essentially from the Mark Center all the way to Tyson's. And the other, I'm going to throw it to my colleague because she probably has some more details on some of the policy research stuff in VRE. Yeah, I'll just add two. Yeah, thank you. I'll add two quick things. There was a really great presentation on by the Transit Resource Center. And I'll just throw out one stat that really jumped out at me that I think is also valid for our conversations here about transportation and dash. And our micromobility is that 80% of all Virginia trips that trips at start or end of Virginia are not commuting trips. So we really need to think about that. I think historically we think about transit very focused on commuters. But given the 15 to 20-year acceleration we saw on telework and just changing habits, 80% of those trips are not commuting trips. So who is on transit? Are we thinking about the user? Is it still a single person going to work with a briefcase or is it a mom with a stroller or is it a person with athletic equipment moving around know, moving around. There was, so there's great information there on the NOVA transit website. The other thing I'll mention, and you probably saw in the news, is that VPRA is in negotiations with Norfolk Southern about potentially purchasing what is essentially the monastic line of VRE service. Those negotiations are happening as we speak and could have some really good long-term improvement opportunities, which Dalton will love that I said the word opportunities, for service on VRE and just generally speaking it will bring operations away from freight and more focused on passenger usage moving forward. So keep an eye out for those negotiations. Thank you. Yep sorry, Councilman Gare. We got one item because it was kind of out of order on the way that we typically do our our meetings. First of all I'll put in a plug for Friday METC as part of their 60th anniversary is going to have a transit summit And I'm going to go to the city of New York. I'm going to go to the city of New York. I'm going to go to the city of New York. I'm going to go to the city of New York. I'm going to go to the city of New York. I'm going to go to the city of New York. I'm going to go to the city of But we also got an update on the Northern Virginia Zero Mission Buster Strategic Plan and update, which is pretty interesting because we see ourselves kind of as a leader in Virginia and we are, but in comparison to like California, New York and Florida, we're vastly, vastly behind when it comes to some of the zero mission buses and the strategies for charging across systems. But what we're making sure to do is that we're going to be coordinating across the region for charging infrastructure, which is going to be very, very crucial. Because regardless if it's a queue bus, a Womada bus, a dash bus, or bus in Montgomery County, we want to make sure that our electric or zero-mission buses are able to properly charge across the entire region and sharing the cost burden on that will be very important as well. So that was the last thing I'm going to make sure to add. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Eguire. That was the only update we had from boards and commissions. Mr. Manager, do you have any orals? Yes, Mayor and Council, I've got two items. One is already listed, it's related to a follow-up on the General Assembly, but before I do that, I wanted to introduce one of our newer employees. And I think this is also a really important one for the community as well as this is a follow-up from the direction the Council had authorized in the FY 24 budget. We have our new program administrator in our residential rental inspection program. L.E.B. Bell Barros is our newest employee and she has taken over over the last three months. And as you know, this program was approved by the City Council in last year's FY24 budget to enhance programs really related to our better quality of living for our residents, particularly in multi-family apartments and things like that. This project, a program exists in the Department of Code Administration under Director Greg Fields and really excited to introduce her. And I think Greg, if you want to say just a couple words about the program, that would be great. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Mr. Bayer, a council, Greg Fields, Director of Co-Demonstration. Who with me tonight is Assistant Director Diane Best, and our new project administrator for the RRI program, Ellie Barrios. And she, as you know, I know I wanted to make sure you guys saw all there actually is a person. She exists. And I know we've been trying to fill this position for a year. Very important position I know to council. And so I can tell you that she has already hit the ground running in the very short time that she's been here. She's already automated our system for the RRI process. She's already attended the core module and understand the legal aspects and the structure for the codes. And she's already been to several community cookout events, including one tonight. She went before she got here. So, so we just wanted to introduce you and if you had any questions or anything related to the program or or Ellie, that we're happy to answer. questions or anything related to the program or Ellie that we're happy to answer. Welcome aboard. We are happy to have you. I know this was a priority for council and so we're excited to see the results. So welcome and we look forward to working with you. Council member Bagley. Yes, thank you. It's so wonderful to see you here. This I'm sure Mr. Field to share. This was an initiative that I was very passionate about in our last budget and really appreciate my colleagues supporting this position being created. I am really excited to learn your multilingual and I think that's going to have a real benefit in the community and I'm just I'm pleased that the time was taken to find the right person and that you've dove right in and just excited to get the feedback from the community and sort of see, you know, we talk a lot about housing in this community, but that tends to be focused on like creating housing and what's happening to housing, but what gets lost sometimes are the conditions that people are living in presently. And so, you know, really excited that you're here and that will have sort of those additional eyes. I know our rental and subtraction program was already really strong but I hope that this helps make it stronger so just welcome really excited and thank you for the work you've done already. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Manager next up is eight. Yep so the next. You want to call it Madam Clerk, no. 8. And the Tory and permissive authority granted by 2024 General Assembly Action. All right, Mr. Mayor. Okay. So this is a follow-up. As you recall, at the last meeting, Sarah Taylor, it talked a little bit about sort of an overview of the General Assembly and this is a follow-up to that where what we wanted to do tonight is highlight a little bit about the mandatory and permissive authority that was granted by the state in the last session. I have some staff here that certainly can speak in some detail on a couple of these items. And so, we have a very short presentation. If you call, you know, we build our legislative agenda based on priorities that the council sets. You can see some of those that are listed here tonight. And then, as we get into it, the way that we have structured the conversation tonight, you have a memorandum in the docket. It's really broken down to three parts. The first two parts are being laws that the state passed the session that apply to our city. As you can see in the memo, some of the laws require some changes to our ordinances, while others we're already doing those things. The third part is where I really would like to focus some attention tonight. That is where the General Assembly has given some additional optional authority to the city. And we plan to focus a little bit attention tonight with the thought process that as Council receives this information, if there's some directional components where you'd like us to explore further, you'd like us to provide additional analysis and bring that back to you later in the year, we'd be happy to do that. So that's really how it's structured. Just quickly, the mandated authorities that you see in front of you, I wanted to highlight one in particular, you see the foster care. That was consistent with one of the council priorities, legislative priorities in that that essentially makes it easier for someone to be a foster care person. The other one I wanted to highlight was a short term rental. At the last one of the last council meetings, this was a high priority for the council. And council gave very clear direction to the staff to come back with a variety of different potential tools to address some of the implications and dynamics that short-term rentals have. The sum of the mandated laws do provide some limits as to how we can regulate short term rentals and we plan to evaluate that as part of the effort on the short term rental process. And by the way, all of these have both the description and then the staff analysis in there and be happy to talk to any of those should you want to do that. And then on the permissive side, I want to take a little bit more time on this. There are over 20 new laws that provide council with optional authority. As you look at these really what we're looking for as additional direction from council as to which ones you would like further information or like us to pursue at a different level. I think there's some good news in some of these and just want to take a few minutes to go through some of those. The first one is really related to a law that allows a locality to regulate retail sale locations of tobacco products and vapor products and alternatives and hemp products. And also regulates distance requirements. And in staff's perspective, there's a policy perspective here that a council can weigh in into and provide us with that direction. This would require some additional staff planning work and we can incorporate that into the work plan should the council want to do that. And I'll keep going and just please stop me as you see fit. The second one is one that's very specific to operational ATVs. This is one I know that the council was interested in. It allows for when we have illegal or alter-rain vehicle or off-road motorcycles operating on a highway or sidewalk within our city, the new law is a result of regulation that was a council priority. And this provides the ability for us as a city where it's a legal activity to impound and dispose of that type of a vehicle, which again provides some additional enforcement capacity for us. The third one is we already have a building, a vacant building registry. This expands the potential registry of that for terms like criminal blight and some other things like that. I think council's perspective is that we do have a policy already and we're certainly be sure that our definition of the vacant building registry complies with the new law. the new law. Just a couple others this is in the area of economic development. There's a couple tools there, the neighborhood revitalization, the economic development one. Those provide a little bit more flexibility as an economic development tool. I would highlight though that the state did not provide funding for those economic development tools. So those are city funded programs. Should the city want to do that? And you can see through the staff analysis, there's probably limiting, limiting, limiting limits to how we can apply them, but they do represent opportunity. And then there is a couple of towing laws to how we can apply them, but they do represent opportunity. And then there is a couple of towing laws that provide additional authority. I'm not going to go into those, but you can see what those are as it relates to predatory towing, predatory towing and some things like that. This would require us amending our towing ordinance should the council want to do that. And then I've asked Kevin Greenleaf to talk about a couple of the tax bills just so that you have a little bit deeper understanding with a higher level of expertise on this one. So Kevin, if you just want to highlight the description of a couple of those. Sure, Kevin Greenleaf, Assistant Director of Finance. the high-light description of a couple of those. Sure, Kevin Greenleaf, Assistant Director of Finance. There's the one bill allows council to exempt retired dogs, if you will, from law enforcement, military. If they are, you know, going to private life, if you will, the council can exempt them. I have no clue how many there are and don't think there are many, and it's a small dollar fee. So that's an option the council has. Council can also instruct the department finance, basically by resolution, grant of authorization, enter into a six-year payment plan, if you will, on the omitted delinquent taxes. So if we make an om make a decision, you can authorize this to make it for six years. I can tell you in my career, I've never done a six-year payment plan. The most similar usually short term. And the taxpayers generally want to get out from underneath it sooner rather than later. So I don't really see that as a particular issue for us here in the city. Not certain where in the state it came later. So I don't really see that as a particular issue for us here in the city, not certain where in the state it came from. And then finally, there's a authorization that we can now do non-digital tax sales in urban revitalization districts. A non-digital tax sale basically just allows a sale property for the link when taxes without going through litigation. It's still is court authorized. These are generally small lots. They're half acre, unimproved, low dollar value. We already have that, it was just an authority. Outside of these districts, the value of the properties are a little bit lower. It's a little bit higher in these districts, but right now, I don't think it's an issue for us, but it does give us additional authority on that. Thank you. And I should have mentioned, when you see a highlighted authority, that is consistent with the council's requested legislative priorities. that is consistent with the Council's requested legislative of priority. So there's several of these related to specific authority requests that the Council made. And then there's another one related to speed enforcement. This is automated speed enforcement. Our analysis to date is this does have some limited expansion of our authority. Should the council want to do that? We do want to take a look at this a little bit closer, particularly as it relates to operational capacity, but it does provide additional authority. And then, Shiran is going to talk a little bit about a couple of the bills they have, maybe a little bit more legal focus, particularly on its relates to FOIA. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Specifically, House Bill 894 and Senate Bill 735 made some additions to the Freedom of Information Act. This new law expanded the authority of certain public bodies to convene all virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 50% of the meetings held per calendar year rounded up to the next toll number, whichever is greater. Currently, the law limits the number of all virtual public meetings to no more than two times per calendar year or 25% of the meetings held per calendar year, whichever is greater. Please note that this new flexibility does not apply to local governing bodies, local school boards, planning commissions, architectural review boards, boards of zoning appeals, and any boards with the authority to deny, revoke or suspend a professional license. This new law also does provide with respect to all virtual public meetings when audio visual technology is available. A member of a public body shall for purposes of a quorum be considered absent from any portion of the meeting during which time visual communication is voluntarily disconnected or otherwise fails or during which audio communication involuntarily fails. Staff advises that the City Council will need to adopt an updated electronic meeting policy resolution. We will have that to you for your consideration prior to the summer break. In addition, the City Clerk's Office will notify all City Board's commissions and committees of these changes and request that they submit an updated annual electronic meeting policy for their respective bodies, acknowledging those changes and setting a schedule of all virtual public meetings as necessary and reflecting compliance with the new law. This information will also be updated in all relevant handbooks for staff liaisons and boards and commission members. Great, thank you. And then there's a couple that frankly we need more time to analyze the impact. Those are related to stark preservation and tree canopy. And we'd like to come back to the council with more specifics on that. We're still evaluating that. There is an employee benefit bill that was passed, actually two bills. And this really just extends the ability for health insurance programs to cover non-benefit it employees. They do have that does that authority would be a policy change, but it does have a significant fiscal impact potentially depending on how that gets applied. There was an animal cruelty bill that was passed and primarily it's a focus on registration for people who have created felonies related to animal cruelty. Sharon already talked about the legal notices. There's a daycare zoning bill that was passed, Bill Item Number 17. The good news is it provides a little more flexibility for daycare zoning, but we probably already do pretty much this already, the way that we apply our zoning, but we are certainly in alignment with the state law in regard to that. In terms of code enforcement, there are some increases in civil penalties. Our charter already has civil penalties above that, so we're I think in relatively good shape. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to do with the work. We have a lot of work to you with some additional options or additional analysis. Thank you, Mr. Manager, thank you Madam City Attorney, Mr. Lawrence. And Mr. Greenley, if we appreciate the memo first of all, and just noting that this is a this is a newer process that we put in place in the last couple of years, and I do appreciate This is a newer process that we put in place in the last couple of years. And I do appreciate that we've done this. And I think this is a good way to kind of, you know, take stock of what was adopted and direct actions related to that. So I appreciate the work that went into preparing this memo. Councilwoman Gaskins and then Councilman Giri. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I too would echo, I thought the memo was really well done and very helpful in kind of pointing out where you need direction, what we're waiting on, and when we can expect to see it. Just a few comments on different ones. The first, it's on page three of the memo and it's House Bill 1488, Senate Bill 413. This is one that is mandatory and it's about the legal notices. This is just a comment. As we get this back, I'm wondering if maybe it's possible to kind of put it in a chart or some form that can be easily shared with the public. I feel like we often get questions about when's the docket coming out, when's this happening, and I think if there's just a way to communicate that, very clearly what the expectation is, that would be really helpful. In terms of the ones where we have permissive authority, I wanted to signal my support for bill number HB947. This is the one on tobacco, nicotine and hemp. I think it asked for direction to add this to the planning work program. So if my colleagues don't agree with it, I would love to see this in the work program. I'd also note that we did receive an email from the Public Health Commission. So it would be great to include them in conversations about this as it moves forward. SB 49, HB 478 on neighborhood revitalization. Just wanted to signal my support for further exploration of staff in our housing master plan process. Also wanted to signal support for moving forward with exploring HB619 SB343, which is related to economic development tools. The one that Mr. Greenleaf spoke about related to the tax for exempting former police law enforcement or military working dogs HB299. I also wanted to signal our support for exploring that moving forward. I know in the description we talked about what it talks about kind of trying to figure out how we get a count or where they're registered. It might be great to check in with the police foundation. I know they do an annual event related to former retired canines and they might have some way of tracking or giving us information. SB336 on the automated speed enforcement. I think in here it mentions you're looking for direction to further pursue this. If my colleagues are in agreement, I am in here it mentions you're looking for direction to further pursue this. If my colleagues are in agreement, I am in support of further pursuing this authority. I am, I know we need more time on this, but just I am particularly interested in the historic preservation bill HB914 as well as the opportunity with the tree canopy HB459 and SB121. Both of these didn't mention though when we could expect to get additional information on this. So I'm not sure the timeline it takes to come back on those, but I just wanted to signal that they are too that I'm particularly interested in. On the daycare zoning, I think you guys were looking for direction here. So I'd like to move forward with the direction staff proposals that we further explore it as part of the planning work plan to understand the impacts on new childcare programs and that if it's a positive impact, I would be supportive of the resolution or whatever the next step is to move that forward. And I think that's it for me. I hope that gives clear direction on some of these and I hope my colleagues will join me in supporting those. But again, thank you. Thank you for the memo. It did make it really clear to kind of follow what the next steps need to be and what are some of the things we might be able to take advantage of sooner than later. Thank you, Councilwoman Gascon. Councilman Geary's next. I just want to, I just want to, and then invite to my address. I just want to note on the on the on the preservation one I'm I'm not clear and I and a staff tried to explain this and so when you come back I guess if you could just explain it's not clear to me that this gives us anything that we're not currently already using so I guess if staff can clarify that when they when they come back If that's necessary and on the tree one I read this bill several times It's not clear what it actually does. It sounds like it's a general somebody special where they give us permission to spend our own money. Is what it sounds like. But the, it's we have been asking for different tree preservation authority for a long, long time and not gotten it. So I was kind of hopeful when I saw this, but it doesn't seem like that's what we got. So Councilman Aguirre and then Vice-Marche X. Yeah, I think staff is gonna bring most of this back to us, and I'm in support of looking at pretty much all of these things. The couple of items that I would just kind of pick out for me personally, definitely the retail tobacco and how that goes into code so that's going to be coming back to us. Towing, I actually already have an email out to the director of TNES. I want to discuss that a little bit further. Definitely the FOIA, the FOIA one seems very intriguing. And I think there'll be some additional guidance needed in discussion and perhaps going back to the general assembly and saying, hey, you guys did a pretty good job, but maybe we could change this a little bit. And then the last one, I've already sent an email to Director Garvey as well around kinship foster care because this is something that we've been trying to do for the last couple of years. So I'm going to be talking about the city. Director Garvey as well around kinship foster care because this is something that we've been trying to do for the last couple of years. So I'm very curious how this will affect how we are able to proceed in the city. But those. So again, I know everything is going to come back to us, but-Payton. Thank you. When we're talking about the retail tobacco nicotine hemp regulation, I guess I would like a little bit more detail about how exactly that would be regulated. Right now, an example, right? We can use marijuana, but it's illegal to buy it. So how does this particular permissive authority play into that? Are they giving us, honestly, just like we've been asking about tree canopy and anything else? It's like, okay, here you go. We've been trying to do it forever, but how does this play into the actual laws that are gonna help with law enforcement? Karl Moritz, Planning Director, absolutely. That's the plan. We will be waiting into something that others have, are very expert in, including law enforcement, DCHS, many others, and so we'll be quite mindful and coordinate with them as we bring something forward. and we're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. We're going to be in the next one. And can you give us any indication about the way that the follow-up will happen? I understand like tonight you might not be able to say like it will be in three months on the docket, but will it be a package that comes back or is the expectation that like as you make progress on an individual item, it'll be docketed during a manager's orals? I think what I would suggest is as we work through them, bring them to the council. I think practically it'll be after the July timeframe. And I think we'll bring them back to you as we're able to get to them. I think there's a couple that I think we know that anything that's in yellow was a council priority and we'd want to try to bring those forward as quickly as we could. But there's also some probably easier ones to go ahead and do that as well. So we're gonna bring them back as we work through those if that is okay with the council, with the idea that these allow us additional opportunities for authority. And so we want to take us a year to get to them and try to move them forward. I think if I could, if we could, as we begin our next package conversation, which begins, I think, before the next calendar year, if we can make sure that there's a loop closing on these, when we start our package, you know, preview conversation, I know that's often starts as early as September, October. So maybe, you know, if our package conversation includes a reflection on these items and where we either decided, yes, we wanted them or no, it wasn't exactly what we were looking for. We'd like to go back for something else. I think that provides a nice opportunity to close the loop on these. Okay. Yeah, and let me just check on for a second. So I, most of these are not the types of things that have any urgency around July 1st. I'm kind of curious on some of the mandates. It's, it's, it seems like maybe one or two that might have some urgency. And I just want to make sure that we're watching to the extent, you know, like, I guess the towing one, the towing mandate jumps out of me requiring a rewrite of our ordinance. So to the extent that we have some inconsistency and existing code with what is now newly mandated and effective July one, I just want to make sure that we on all the list that those things that fall into that category have to be the first priority. And then we can deal with stuff that's more elective. So I don't know if there's, you have any, you're just nodding vigorously. I don't know if you have any. I mean, we are looking at all of these in the sense of what the timing needs to be given the council's summer break. So the city manager, myself and his staff, we're all working together to kind of create a work plan and bring to you all in order. Not only of importance to you all in terms of your legislative priorities, but things that we need to do, pursuant to the July 1 effective date. Yeah, quite candidly. I mean, just in this is probably a discussion we need to have with our friends and Richmond, I think to the extent there are mandates that require comprehensive rewrites to the ordinances. I think we need to provide feedback during the sessions about kind of the timing of that because putting those in effect on July 1 is not enough time given the governor's making action on the legislation in the April time frame. So, okay. Other comments, thoughts, direction, suggestions? Mr. Manager, did you get what you needed from us on this? Yeah, so I just to reiterate what I'm hearing is that bulk, if not all of the permissive authorities, you'd like some level of analysis with some optional review. And what we'll do is we'll try to tackle as many as we can, as fast as we can to get them up to you, with maybe a little bit of a higher priority for the ones that are our council established priorities. Yeah, I mean it does strike me as I think we want to explore everything. But there will be some that I think we're going to want to have some discussion about, particularly given whatever proposals you bring forward. I don't think, at least for me personally, I don't think all these are going to be the types of things I would definitely want to rubber stamp as is. I think we're gonna wanna have some conversation on some of them. Okay, that sounds great. Okay, anything else on this item from anyone? All right, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Manager, do you have any other worlds, Mr. Manager? No, I do not. Okay, Madam Clerk. Action, docket, regular consent calendar 932. Okay, are there requests to remove any items off the consent calendar? I had a request on 14, oh sorry, 13. And I'm gonna request 15 and there's a 22. So I got 13, 15, 13, 13, 15, 16, 22. Is there a motion to approve the remainder of the consent calendar? Motion by Councilman Chalkin? Seconded by Councilman McGuiry. Any further discussions from Mayor? In the consent calendar, Councilman McGuiry. I didn't want to pull 14, but I just did want to mention it. I'm really excited about what- I think someone did, no, no, no, no, no, that one thing to pull. Sorry, keep going, keep going, sorry. Just knowing that we went and award as a city for what we did in the small area plan for our land to Chilawa that we're going after similar money to be able to do culturally competent or at least culturally sensitive outreach, I think is very important. A lot of the staff are going after this again. Thank you, Councilman Geary. Any further discussion on improving the consent calendar? Your none, all is in favor. Please remain in the same eye. I, I, all opposed to any. The I's have it. Madam Clerk, number 13. In consideration of a housing opportunities fund loan of up to $14 million to housing Alexandria to facilitate completion of the San say apartments in our land. All right. Vice President Jackson. Thank you. I was just hoping for the presentation so that it was, sorry. I was hoping for the presentation so the public could know all the updates. Oh, I'd be very glad. Thank you. So I could ask some questions. Thanks. So good evening. I'm Helen McElvain, your housing director. And I'm joined tonight by Aaron Ramalona, who is the vice president of development and acquisitions for Housing Alexandria, who, the owner and developer of the project. And I know, nearly all of you were at the groundbreaking back in October, and I'm pleased to report that the project is moving along beautifully. There's a very large hole in the ground, but there's also sheeting and shoring and it is both on track and on budget so far. So we have talked about the project a number of times and I've shown you some of these. But what this graphic does is really show you that all along the project, which is almost 500 units, has been planned to be a phase project. It is larger than any project we've undertaken with a partner. And it is obviously one that we have frequently called the city's highest housing priority. So right now, I know housing Alexandria has pledged never to call a phase of a project phase zero. But they are nearly completed with phase zero, which is the underground parking garage. They've done the site work and various improvements for which we provided some ARPA funds as well as some city funds. And basically tonight's your approval tonight will take the portions of the building that are marked phase one and phase two that entire building through completion. Phase three is the retail center and condo building and that is being dealt with differently because of the home ownership structure. So this slide really gives you an update in terms of where we are. And as I mentioned, the project is on track and vertical construction, meaning the actual building improvements themselves, will begin in the fall. Something that is unusual about this project and I'm very proud of this, is that some of what shows up as the city investment are really funds that we and housing Alexandria have worked very hard to raise and leverage. So, you know, besides the ARPA funds, there's a significant amount of state housing trust fund monies in the project. There's more than $18 million in Virginia housing grant money. And so the project will actually the first first time, it will actually have to borrow money from other sources will come after October when it begins vertical construction. And that is very often the riskiest part of construction. So it's been a huge plus for the project. And then next year you will start seeing phase two get underway. So I'm happy to share some of these action photos and very impressive numbers about the cubic yards of dirt all. I will say this is Aaron's presentation. So I appreciate him letting me do it in Aaron, if I miss anything. You're great. OK. And I think when we talked about the project originally, this project is making some improvements that will be of great benefit to that whole block. And I think that was one of the things that persuaded you that using ARPA funds here made sense because it would be really for the benefit of the whole community and future development in this area. So again, the sheeting and shoring, and we've had lots of folks come up and visit, and I think they're excited. Currently, Housing Alexandria has an RFP out for equity investors, So, of course, having the project at this level of work is exciting to them as well. So this again shows you the various phases and numbers of units. So phase one and phase two will deliver the first 416 rental units, building three or phase three. Of course, we'll have the 58 condes for sale units. Oh, Helen, can I go back to that one slide real quick? Sure. So this is actually nice to emphasize because this is our construction contract pricing for phase one and phase two. Obviously, we have a construction contract for phase zero. Phase one and two pricing is now locked in. So that's one of the reasons that it's sort of important for us to continue with the sequencing of city funding so that we don't have to slow down when we get to October and phase zero is ready to be constructed upon. So the point here is that we have construction pricing that came in on budget and we're ready to sort of lock up our contract pricing on this. Yeah, that has probably been the most remarkable thing to the various, to Virginia housing and the various investors we've been talking to is that they really got the construction and cost of the project right, despite all of the volatility in the market. So I think this just shows that over the next several months they're going to be closing on different types of financing and obviously Virginia housing has been committed to the project from the very beginning and is going to continue and provide probably a construction loan and permanent financing. They have a good project that does that conversion. I think what this shows you are the various dates that things will be happening. And as I mentioned next spring, they'll be starting on phase two. This is a probably very hard for you and for our community to read this slide, but it shows just the very large number of sources and I would say each one of these line items has about three sub bullets, but it shows you somewhat the challenge of developing affordable housing and going out and looking for obviously as much grant and equity as we can so that the project has to borrow very little. And as we always like to see, housing Alexandria has skin in the game and has a different portions of its developer fee. Okay, so you have been funding different parts phases of this project all along. I think in the memo, I referred to it as some hoped for Amazon funding, did not materialize, but I took great encouragement today to find out that they are reopening their fund with refreshing it with $1.4 billion. So if I weren't here tonight, I would be obviously trying to reach someone there. So but we are, you know, we are continuing always looking for opportunities. And in fact, very hopeful day. They are one of their current interests is affordable for opportunities. And in fact, very hopeful they are one of their current interests is affordable home ownership. And we think the third phase may offer opportunities to work with them. They are involved in housing Alexandria's project on seminary road. And last year, as we mentioned, you authorized the city manager to provide a comfort letter and to refer to Aaron's point, really just to make sure the people knew that this project once it began was going to keep going. I think always good to end with some nice images. So this is the first building that's going to be delivered right second building. This is Sansa and this is the first building phase. It's two phases, as we've said, phase one, phase two. That shot, I think, is basically as if you were looking from the Burjmeer parking lot. And I will say when I am the city manager and others have gone to meetings attendant workers and to all places in the community, the fact that this construction is going on right now has everyone's attention. And so housing Alexandria has started. It's a rent ready program to prepare community members to be ready and eligible for the new housing resources that are being planned for the community. I'm glad to answer any other questions you have. Okay, Vice President Councilman, yeah. Sorry. Yes, I just wanted, I wanted everyone's attention on this because it is, everyone is going by that particular lot. We were there, you know, a few months ago it seems, even though probably longer at this point, but it's an active site. And, you know, we have some places in Alexandria there aren't, so this was a very positive moment here as we're, of course, continuing course continuing well hopefully we're continuing to give funding to this project but yeah congratulations on shoring up some other contracts there to make sure that the money is is locked in and and that we can I think when I totaled it up earlier today there's more than 40 million dollars of totaled it up earlier today. There's more than $40 million of not city money that's been put into this project so far. It falls under our account, but it's from other sources. So very, very, very positive. And I think the other thing when you call this your highest housing priority, we were all conscious of the tremendous housing need in this community. So the fact that more than 25% of the units will be affordable to families and households at 40% of the area median income is a big deal. So, and thank you, your diligence. Thank you very much for the opportunity to let the community know and certainly invite them to drive by. Thank you. Vice President Jackson, Councilman Eger. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. and let the community know and certainly invite them to drive by. Thank you, Vice President Jackson, Councilman Eger. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And what you mentioned, the rental ready program, will you be partnering with some of the local nonprofits, Kastichu Lawa, TW, Community Alliance? Absolutely. They're working already very, very closely with tenant workers and Kastichu Lawa. And from what I understand, there was tremendous interest. They brought people in, and they have shifted for the moment to sort of one-on-one work. Because some of these concepts are really very complex and nuanced, and they want to, to the greatest extent possible, make sure that everybody has a shot. Very much so, it's one of the biggest buzzes in the community. I've spoken to countless people who are constantly asking, when can I apply? They already applied, it's already full, you know? So this is good just to make clear to folks. Mr. Mayor, I'd move approval. There's been a motion by Councilman Giri seconded by Vice Mayor Jackson to approve the installment of the city's financing package. You provided a housing outzz for building one of the Orlando Project and authorized the city of Mandra and execute such documents as maybe needed to implement the loan. Any further discussion council member Bagley. Thank you. I'm gonna sneak in. You mentioned they made a reference to the Seminary Road project. Yes. I know that's not what this is, but do you mind just giving us 30 seconds on that status in the progress? No, I'd be delighted to do that. I was on site on Friday morning. We had, again, a delegation from Virginia Housing that was actually going to the HUD innovation program on the national mall, but they wanted to come by and see. There's also a very large hole there. And of course, housing Alexandria is going to first tackle several sticks of town homes that will add up to 31 town homes. Their goal, of course, is still to sell them to households with incomes up to 80% of the area median income. So I will say that people imagine that home ownership is an easy thing. And of course, that too is a very, is more complicated than it may look. But I know that housing Alexandria has conducted already several open houses and sort of very preliminary training sessions. A few weeks ago our office had the great pleasure of conducting a lottery for the condos at the Aiden and we had 121 people and could only pick seven. So we promised to share, you know, to continue to let people know just the desire of people to own a home. But that is being, is going to be sold to families based on a shared equity model like our very long-term program. And then, as you know, first the 31 town homes and then there's a small condo building. And that is where there will be the units that will be owned and operated by sheltered homes of Alexandria, as well as some one-level homes for five other households. So lots of great things going. The first homes will be for sale by next summer. That's a great update, thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Bagley. Okay, we have a motion in a second on this one. Is there further discussion? You're in none. All those in favor, please join my saying aye. Aye. All opposed, aye. Thank you very much. Thanks for the update and thanks for all the progress on this one. Thank you. Madam Clerk number 15. Consideration of receipt of fiscal year 2024. Third quarter capital project status report related to the City Council approve capital projects. Okay. Let me just just a really quick feedback in a suggestion. So first of all, I appreciate the new format and the additional information, I think it's great. And I do love how it's the internet availability and how we have this data out there for the public. And so thank you for the work. And I know this is a lot of migration activity to get all this data in the right place The the one suggestion I would have It's obviously a lot of information and there are people in this community who will read every single page and all of the detail There's also people who won't and so if we could put at least for a scope schedule and budget So if we could put at least for scope schedule and budget, some T-sort sizing red yellow green or something, however you wanna classify it, just so people can quickly at a glance determine which projects are troubled from a scope schedule and budget perspective and which projects are on track. Some way of just providing some categorization. I think that would be really helpful. I know you can kind of look dig through the data and kind of understand which ones are having challenges and I think the status and the explanation of the cost variances get into that. But I think having some kind of high level categorization on each one would be really, really helpful. So we can talk offline if you want, but I can give you some examples. Mayor Wilson, Terry, Sierra, Director of Project Implementation. Thank you for the feedback. We will take a look and I'll chat with you, see what ideas you have, see what we could be most useful. Perfect, thank you. Are there any other questions? I may have some specific questions Can you see what ideas you have to see what could be most useful? Perfect. Thank you. Are there any other questions? I may have some specific questions on some of the projects for status and I'll reach out offline. Are there any other questions from Council on the report? Is there a motion to receive his information of the report? Motion by Council Member Bagley, seconded by Councilman Chapman. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favour, please enter my seat. Aye. I'm going to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the councilman to ask the Thank you, Mayor Wilson. I had asked if our director of the Office of Climate Action could give us a brief presentation on the pursuit of these grants and how they would be applied if one. Yes, thank you. Ryan Fried, climate action officer. The energy efficiency and conservation block grant is a fund provided by the US Department of Energy. It's dulled out based on population to states, cities, and counties. So this $197,700 that we're getting is will come to us. It's a formula allocated to us. We just have to get through the application process. Get that done. We're planning to use this for two major initiatives. The first is the relaunch of the Ecosidia Academy. This is a program that had been happening in Alexandria prior to the pandemic and has not been launched since. We're going to relaunch that and then have a focus on creating some ambassadors out of that. So targeted in neighborhoods, making sure that we recruit people from all neighborhoods in Alexandria and then having targeted education. So if we're going to be in Old Town, then we're going to be talking about improvements that meet the housing stock here. If we're going to be in an area that has heart concentration multi-family housing, then we'll focus on renters and other pieces of that like that. We'll train people on how to get folks signed up for weatherization and LIHEAP and other city and state programs. So the idea is really to get, have build ambassadors in our community, to go out there, sign people up for programs. That program will be run by our newest colleague in the Office of Climate Action, Julia Fernandez-Marcos, who is our Climate Justice Manager. We will also use this program to fund some community-based organizations to do some outreach as well for us. And we'll host some equity and environmental justice training, specific engagement training for staff for the graduates of the Academy and for community-based organizations on techniques we can use to get out in the community, get more feedback and bring that to us. It's likely that in fiscal 26, we'll be looking at an update to the environmental action plan. It's so if we're looking at something like that, we want to make sure that we're getting more feedback from a more diverse set of Alexandrians. And the Ecosody Academy program is designed to help us do that, to do more outreach early so we can start setting our priorities now as we start building the plan in the next couple of years. The second of those programs is an electrification promotion program. This is fairly straightforward. We're going to purchase some efficiency and electrification stuff education tools. So hands-on demonstrations. We have a couple of those that we've been deploying around already at cookouts and events. We're going to get some more to have some things that people can be involved in. We're looking at things that you can get like kids on a bike to ride a bike and power up lights and things and show them how much energy it takes to power things up and why efficiency is good. We'll also be trying to help people understand the value of getting gas out of their homes and why they should electrify. And then finally here is trying to create an interactive element to some of the Office of Climate Action website. So much of what we have to accomplish in Alexandria requires residents to take action. We can't do it for them. So we want them to have a way to tell us. We have to have 55,000 housing units retrofitted or built that are energy efficient by 2030 to meet our energy and climate change action plan goals. We can't do that as the city, so we need to make sure that we're recognizing when people are doing that and giving them a chance to tell us that they've done that. So that's what some of that money is gonna be used for. But happy to answer any questions you have. Okay. Council member Biden. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation and for identifying these funds. One thing I wanted to just highlight is the fact that this office exists and is staffed is why we are able to pursue these funds. I noted in the memo that no staffing and additional staffing is necessary, but I think what that demonstrates is we've built in the staff and so we are ready to simply apply for and implement these funds. So it's kind of just a nice fruition, I think, of having created this office and Ryan coming in and then hiring the rest of the office. So just wanted to highlight that because simply the staff existing allows us to now pursue more funds and implement them. So I really appreciate that. I wanted to just touch on a few things. You said one of the statistics that I want to make sure gets highlighted, which is 55,000 existing homes that are not within sort of city ownership, city property need to be retrofitted for us to meet our goals. And so I really appreciate the electrification promotion, you know, decision here because the city can do everything right theoretically with our, with our own transit systems, with our own buildings, and we'd still have a long way to go. So I'm really glad we're highlighting that. And then I wanted to ask two quick questions about the Eco City Academy. And are we targeting, are we taking advantage of Councilman and Gary referenced earlier sort of the award-winning F, we've done with like the small area plan in our Landry and Chililagua and how we really capitalized on language tools and creative ideas. Can we cross reference with those teams that are doing Alexandria West and that did that small area plan to try to get a more diverse set of applicants and youth potentially? Yes, absolutely. We're doing that. And Julie has been out with the community talking at every community cookout and having conversations with lots of folks, African communities together, across the chair, LaGua, and the work of United and others to talk about who we should be targeting for this and what makes sense how who has time to attend something like this. This is not going to be as long as the city academy. This will be much shorter, much more focused, but all of that design is something that we're working on right now with the community to figure out. We don't want to design this and then seek input. So we're building this with community input to figure out how do we get the people that we need to hear from to attend this. So the design of this is going to take some time to get that input first. I'm thrilled to hear that because I think it's important that we build the program to attract the right people before we start the program again. And so I would also just encourage you to do some engagement at ACHS and the other schools in the area to get some of those youth or recent graduates who can participate because you know that's definitely their more they're going to be more impacted than ever by sort of climate action or inaction on our part. So again thank you both for the presentation those are my questions and I would I would move that we move the grant application to the US Department of Energy. Okay there's a motion to authorize submission of the grant application. Authorize a manager to apply and enter any necessary agreements. That's been seconded by Vice Mayor Jackson, Councilwoman Gaskins. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just had a question related to how you're thinking about the sustainability of the programs. I'm really excited that we're going to launch, but does this allow us enough money to run the, you know, the Academy for multiple years? Is this one year and then we're hoping every year we're going to need this grant in order to keep the Academy going? I'm just curious how you're thinking about that. No, I don't expect this grant to come back. This grant has only happened once before and that was in the Recovery Act. So this fund will not probably come back unless we have another economic disaster. So let's hope it does not come back. But the money for the Academy is largely some of this initial partner outreach and figuring out how we can build the capacity and community. But the majority is going to be from Julia and our sustainability coordinator who will be doing that outreach. So that is already staffed and funded. So we will not, the program will be sustainable. So this initial part is there. For the electrification promotion, like I said, the majority of this is purchasing some initial equipment that's going to be durable that we can use for promotion. And then that website, there is a fund to incentivize some efficiency measures. We had a little bit of a snag with some legislation from the General Assembly. The Governor vetoed our ability to provide direct incentives. We can still work through that with a third party. So some of that money would go there. That would not be sustainable funding. But it wouldn't need to be if we incentivize the right things and can use that to jumpstart the interest in some of those improvements and homes. I guess one thing that should be helpful, if we are successful in getting this, how we document and think about the expenses that are needed moving forward, because I would imagine even though we're thinking of this in terms of initial outreach, if we have a lot of community partners where the funding is critical for them to be able to continue to do this engagement, I wouldn't want us to set up an expectation or a partnership where we pay them one time, but then we need them for the next six years. So I think maybe it's, you know, I'll speak success into the atmosphere, but once you receive it coming back and really understanding what does it take, especially for our partners that we're seeking to actually do some of the environmental justice work. Like what does it truly take to do that outrage? What's the type of cost that might be needed moving forward? Just so we can continue to do it right. Absolutely, thank you. Vice-Protection. Thank you. And thank you for reestablishing this. We have several academies and I think this is a needed one. And to that point, I would ask from the conversation that just happened if the city manager, I don't know if you could provide what the other city academies, you know, the sheriff's a cat fire, all of those, how much those academies take to run and are sustainable on that amount of money just so we can, I know, all academies are different. And of course, the time frame of, you know, if you're not as long or you're, you know, your, the Echo City Academy is only half of what it is for another academy, but I would be interested to know, and then we can compare and contrast, right? And then all is fair in the world. Okay, thank you. Okay, any additional comments, questions? Okay, there already is a motion in a second. Hearing no other discussion, all those in favor, please sign them by saying aye. Aye. the other one. I have a question. I have a question. Hearing no other discussion. All those in favour, please signal my saying aye. I, all opposed, say nay. The aye is habit. Thank you very much. We appreciate the update. All right. That brings us to number 22. Right. Introduction in first reading consideration. Passage on first reading of an ordinance to amend and reordained section five, dash seven, dash 57, limitation on number of dogs and cats kept for dwelling units, chapter seven, animals and file of Title five, transportation and environmental services of the Code of Alexandria, Virginia. Councilwoman Gaskins. Thank you. And I just have three quick questions. I raised thisaskins. Thank you. And I just have three quick questions. I raised this when this was first proposed. And I noticed there was a sentence in the memo that said that there won't be any impact on animal control and our ability. I'm just curious how that was calculated and how we're thinking about the, how we ensure that our services, our enforcement and our resources would also keep pace with a growing number of dogs. Sorry, that's a good, great question. We currently have myself and four of their animal control officers and our current call capacity is not exceeded. So we believe that we have the capacity to continue providing those excellent services for years coming, even with the passage of this. We don't anticipate that it's going to create a huge influx of dogs. We don't think that just because someone owns three dogs now that they're going to suddenly decide to go out and get two more dogs just because of the passage of this. I think most people are going to kind of place themselves in that regard. So I don't really foresee that it's going to be an issue for us. That's helpful. And then this may be a question for the manager. But I'm just wondering in our, I know we have our open space plan and we have other partners there, a similar type of plan or a subsection that's specifically focused on dog parks and just again thinking about I don't think everyone's going to rush on and get new dogs but eventually as we do see north animals come into the community how do we also make sure they have the amenities and the things we all want to take our pets to. We can we can come back to you with some information about that. Thank you I appreciate that. Sure there's a dog hard plan of some kind out of parks and rec. So we can probably find that. Councilman Gaskins, do you have another follow-up? No, that goes from a two question. All right. Councilman McIntyre. Yeah. I appreciate, you know, this came to us because residents were requesting that we raise the limit here. I'm curious. In the last few years, how many times have we dealt with an issue where residents had more than three dogs and had to take some action later to that? The time that I've been here, which I came on board about four years ago, we have had no real issues with that. We've had a few calls where it was a pet boarding type situation where someone was watching other people's animals and we just politely asked them to please stop and we and they did. I only ask because we've got maybe a couple of emails from people asking, is this going to cause a massive number of increases at dogs but we don't have a real challenge here. It seems that we didn't have people looking to have too many dogs to begin with. I think this will be very moderate and very reasonable in its applicability. So I thank you all for moving so quickly to bring this before us. OK. Vice Mayor Jackson. Thank you. Thank you. I have a couple questions. So one, to that point, also of my colleague, have we had any issues concerning noise with dogs? I know we don't. How do you enforce a noise ordinance with barking, things like that? We do occasionally get barking complaints. They make up approximately maybe 8% of our total call volume per year. So it's not very often that we get those. And we generally use a lot of one-to-one counseling with the dog owners and provide good advice and good resources through our behavior department, which has an outreach program to help people with behavioral issues, dogs barking things of that nature. Do you know off the top of your head how many of them are repeat offenders that you have to return to as of that? I would say out of that 8%, probably 75% of those are going to be repeat offenders that we have to go back out to and step up our enforcement action. Do you know if they have three dogs or less? They have one dog. They have one dog and those are concern. Okay. Thank you. So I'll leave that there for a minute. My other concern is with five dogs and I'm hoping you've never seen this, but puppy mills come to mind, right? So I would hate for an ordinance that says five dogs, because then people push it as a six dogs and that. So have you had any concerns about that with the ordinance that we have now with the regulation? I have not seen any evidence of any puppy mil tie activity. We certainly run into people who are breeding their dogs. Most of those people have been, we've discovered that those are responsible breeding operations. We've had some that we were less excited to see. And a lot of that was taken care of through just other actions as far as the animal care code and just, you know, issue and some violations and things. So we haven't really seen a major problem with that in our city up to this point. And hopefully we won't. Thank you. and hopefully we won't. Thank you. Okay, is there any additional questions? This is obviously just introductions. This is on for final adoption on Saturday. All right, is there a motion to pass on first reading and set for public hearing, second reading and final passage. So moved. Motion by Council Member Bagley, seconded by Councilman Chapman, any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, please say no to I. I. I. Opposed to say no. I's have it. I'm really proud of myself for making it through that item and never referencing three dog night. So I just want, I want everyone to note that I made it through all that. So never made that joke. All right, Elieau explained who three dog night was later. Early. All right, it's a record and so hold on things. All right, let's take the roll call consent one by one. I want a question on 23. So, a matter of number 23. Consideration of a resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds of the Alexandria redevelopment and housing authority for the heritage at Old Town redevelopment project. Okay, I'm just first of all, let me just note that I know we get a lot of questions about the status of this redevelopment and it's obviously a very visible property in the city. It was an extensive process leading to the approval and I think I'm sure my colleagues do as well. Folks who monitor the goings on on that site on a regular basis and know that there hasn't been a lot happening in a while. And so I do want to applaud Arha for getting this tool back in our toolbox and then working to partner with a with Jyre Lynch to make this happen and get this project moving. I really appreciate that and I'm excited about that opportunity. And I guess just one technical question and then one kind of question from Miss McLevain. I know we've had some questions regarding the folks who were displaced as part of the redevelopment. I think can you provide a quick update on the status of those families and kind of what happens next as this project proceeds and give us any sense of timing that you have from here and then I have a technical question to ask. So on the resolution. Absolutely, and thanks for the opportunity. Helen McElvain, city housing director. So as the mayor said, a number of families in the garden apartments and some of the town home style buildings were relocated when the project first expected to begin construction now almost two years ago. All but 12 households were relocated within the city. There was a group of 12 families that wanted to move to a specific apartment building in Fairfax County, and they were able to take their housing assistance payment contract and go there. It was there, obviously, their social and safety net. So we are in touch on a regular basis with the properties housing relocator. We've been working with them as recently as a few months ago on issues related to coordination with ACPS with social services. Just to make sure that for the families that are in Alexandria, there's no interruption of services. In the beginning, it was primarily where the kids were, some were able to continue at Lyle's crouch, some were moved to neighborhood schools. And of course, as the time has gone on, maybe that was the best outcome. But always the plan has been that the families have a right to return and from what we have seen when we've talked to them and talked to the relocation coordinator, that is their intent. They're very eager to see, I'm sure they will be very eager to see this project moving forward. A representative of Gyro Lynch told us that their plan is to be underway by the first quarter of next year and based on the fact that some of their financing will be coming from tax credits, I think we can expect the buildings to be delivered within two years, a typical sort of tax credit period once you get going. So and I think the other thing that's wonderful is that they are going to be building what was proposed, basically a mixed income project where all the residents can share the amenities and so that is a very, very good thing. But just as the mayor said, the opportunity to look at a clever way to put all the pieces together to go forward is great news. Yeah, and I thank you for that update. And I hope you're walking through that. I also think it's important to clarify for the public because I've got a couple of emails that this is not the city extending financing I also think it's important to clarify for the public because I've got a couple emails that This is not the city extending financing to this private developer on this project It's not even our high extending the financing to a private developer on this project. It's conduit financing and so much much like we do with IDA and In other in economic development initiatives. So again, appreciative of that, the exercise of that tool. One other kind of hyper-technical thing I had raised from a resident referring to the language on the resolution, the language on the resolution says that this is going to finance and refinancing certain of the costs of acquisition, rehabilitation, and equipping of a multifamily residential rental housing facility known as heritage to be owned by the bar, bar or consisting of land and the improvements there on comprised of approximately 244 rental and 12 three story garden style apartment buildings and one six-story mid-rise building locations. I think the question was raised about the description of the property as being the before versus the after. I just want to and I think I think having read that sentence a couple of times, the operative word there is the financing and refinancing certain costs associated with acquisition rehabilitation equipping. So it's probably a term of art about whether you're referring to the, you're acquiring the previous property that was already acquired or reacquiring it. So, it, just to be clear, this is, this is financing related costs associated with the acquisition of the Red Lysield out of Nottingham. Your acquisition of the original property as well as rehabed ultimately the redeveloped. That is correct. All of the costs as well as actually the costs associated with the cost of borrowing, the costs are rolled up into this $37.5 million bond. And you're right, there is no obligation on the part of our how or the city to repay these funds if there ever becomes a problem, which of course we don't expect. It's a very experienced developer. The other change I will say is that the plan is to approach the project on a block by block basis now. I think we're all hoping that costs and other things will continue to improve. So. Great. Thank you, Ms. McElvin. If there's no other questions, entertain a motion by Councilman Chapman that we receive and adopt the attached resolution is recommended by our hot. It's been seconded by Vice Mayor Jackson. Any further discussion hearing none? It is a resolution. It's a roll call, Madam Clerk. Please roll the roll. Councilman Chapman. Aye. Vice Mayor Jackson. Hi mayor Wilson. Hi councilman Gary. Hi councilmember Bagley also on the gaskins. Hi councilman McPike. Hi. Okay the resident is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk number 24. Thank you. consideration of a resolution regarding the delegation of city council authority to the city manager or designee. All right. Is there a motion to approve the resolution? Motion by Councilmember Pike, seconded by Councilmember Bagley. I've got to give the left side a chance sometimes, right? Any further discussion? Hearing none is a roll call, Madam Clerk. Please call it roll. Councilmember Pike. Aye. Councilmember Bagley. Mayor Wilson. Aye. I smell Jackson. Councilmember Gire. Aye. Councilman Chapman. Councilwoman Gaskin. Aye. The resolution is the top unanimously. All right. Madam Clerk number 25. Children youth and families collaborative I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move to the next slide. I'm going to move for stepping up in the willingness to serve. If you're not appointed tonight, please try again. We will get you on eventually. So for the one community position on the Children's Youth and Families Collaborative Commission, we had eight applicants for the one community member position. The eight applicants were Georgia Brooker, Jennifer Arley, who required a residency waiver, Robert Gillian, Terry Glover, Michael Hollinsworth, Ashley Jefferson, who required a residency waiver, Darcell Parker, who required a residency waiver, and Teresa Riley. Miss Brooker received two votes, that of Councilman Gheary and Councilman Chapman. Terry Glover received four votes, that of Councilwoman Gaskins, myself, Councilman McPite, Councilman McBagley, and Teresa Riley received one vote, I would like to thank the staff for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and support for the support and Councilman Mike and Zayn and Yaseem receive the votes of Councilman Aguirre, Councilman Gaskins, myself, Vice Mayor Jackson, Councilmember Bagley, and Councilman Chapman. Congratulations to Zayn and Yaseem for her appointment to the Children's Youth and Families Collaborative Commission. Madam Clerk, number 26. Citizen Corps, Council, one citizen member. Okay, we had three applicants for the one citizen member position. The three applicants are Rachel Mann, David Mendes and Shannon Whalen McDaniel. Rachel Mann received three votes that of myself, Councilman Giri, Councilman Chapman. David Mendes received four votes that of Vice Mayor Jackson, Councilman McPite, Councilman Bagley, Councilwoman Gaskins. Congratulations to Mr. Mendes, who's the appointee of the Citizen Corridor Council. And, of course, number 27. Independent community policing review board, one member from historically racially or socially marginalized communities. All right. We had two applicants for the one member from historically racially or socially marginalized communities. The two applicants are Tina Carriger, required a residency waiver and debt reporter. Ms. Porter received all seven votes of the Council and his name is the appointed the independent community police-review board. Madam, do you say that 20 times that? Madam Clerk, number 28. Landlord, tenant relations board, one tenant representative. All right. We had four applicants for the one tenant representatives. The four applicants for Isaiah. Albright, Amy, Pernell, Andrea Weiss and Mike Yelovich. Miss Pernell received all seven votes of the council and is unanimously appointed to the Landlord tenant relations board. Item clerk number 29. Park and Recreation Commission two planning district two representatives. All right. We had three applicants for the two planning district two applicants, or sorry representatives. The three applicants are Joseph Frey, Jeff Goode who is an incumbent and sure Riley. Mr. Frey received six votes that of myself, Councilman Gierri, Councilman Gaskins, Councilman McPie, Councilman Chapman, Councilman McPagley, Jeff Good received six votes that of Vice Mayor Jackson, myself, Councilman Gierri, Councilman McPite, Councilman McPagley, Councilman Chapman, and Sherry Riley received two votes that of Vice Mayor Jackson and Councilman Gaskin. Congratulations to the Joseph Frey and Jeff Good on their appointment and reappointment respectively to the Parks and Recreation Commission. Madam Clerk number 30. Potomac Yard Design Advisory Committee one Potomac Yard area representative. Anyway, two applicants for the one Potomac Yard Design Advisory Committee Potomac Yard representative. The two applicants are Nancy Applebee, who is an incumbent and Gabriella Conomer Clark. Miss Applebee received all seven votes and is unanimously reappointed with the Potomacare Design Advisory Committee. Madam Clerk, number 31. Sister City's Committee, one citizen member. All right, the one citizen member position, or the one citizen member is Elizabeth Poppin, who requested a residency waiver. I have requests from all members of council to re-avertise. I'll entertain a motion to re-avertise. Motion by councilman Chapman, seconded by council member Bagley. Any further discussion on the motion to re-avertise the position, hearing none. All those in favor, please remain a saying aye. Aye. All opposed, saying aye. The ayes have it. Madam Clerk, number 32. Traffic and parking board to citizen members. Oh my. So we had nine applicants for the two citizen member positions. A lot of interest in serving on traffic and parking boards. We're all begins. All right. So we have the nine applicants are Eva Bastion, Coleman Burke, Hunter, Irman, Casey Kane who's an incumbent, Thomas Copco, Dane Lourdeson, Allison Maltz, Ashley Mahalek, who's an incumbent and Mark Stout. Casey Kane, Ashley Mahalek, received all seven votes at the Council and is unanimously reappointed the traffic and parking board. For those who were not appointed, please try again. Madam, clerk number 33. Visitor Alexander Board of Governors 1 at large member. All right. We have two applicants for the one at large member to the Visitor Alexander Board position. The two applicants are Christina Calloway, Maryland Patterson. Miss Patterson received all seven votes of the council as unanimously appointed to the Visitor Alexander Board. Madam clerk number 34. Introduction and first reading passage on first reading. Consideration of an ordinance to amend and reordained section two. Cash one dash four compensation of members of article A general for general provisions of chapter one. The city council title to general government of the code of the city of Alexandria for January 1981 as amended to increase the compensation for the mayor and city council members effective January 2025. All right, so as my colleagues are certainly aware and the community is probably aware as well. Back in December, the council did an unanimously vote and asked the city manager to prepare an ordinance to adjust the city council salaries. As community may not necessarily be aware, the council cannot raise its own salary. Council can only raise the salary of the next council. And by law, we must do that sufficiently several months before the election and November election. So this ordinance is in our docket. This is first passage and consideration of the ordinance. Ultimately, we will take public testimony on this on Saturday if we advance it tonight and then the public will have an opportunity to come and testify on this and then we will have the final final passage to the ordinance or final consideration of the ordinance on Saturday. At this point, I'll entertain any comments or more motions. All right. We'll just sit here. Councilman Geary. I'd make a motion, but I wanted to amend it slightly. So, I'm going to move to the next one. All right. We'll just sit here. Councilman Geary. I'd make a motion, but I wanted to amend it slightly. So, I would move to introduce in pass on first reading an ordinance establishing for the next term of city council, the annual compensation for the mayor at 72,000. All right, there's been a motion by Councilman Aguirre to amend the ordinance and have the mayor salary be 70. What'd you say? 22. 72. Is the filing deadline passed for that? So 72,000 and the city council for 68, you said. All right, is there a second? There's a second by Councilman Chapman. Mr. Mayor. Additional discussion, Councilman Aguirre. I really appreciate all the work the staff has done on this and to the City Manager for bringing it this forward. And I understood, or understand what his recommendation was, the reasoning for me at least to raise it slightly higher is that even at this position, we are still $20,000, at least $20,000 below our neighbor interest. And it's difficult for me to sit in a room as I was discussing with my colleague Council Member Bagley, where're sitting at regional meetings, looking at cross at others, and it's hard to say that we're doing less work than some of the other elected officials. So I still think that it's modest compensation, and I hope that my colleagues will be supportive. Okay, Vice-Parentrace. Thank you. I, I too appreciate all the work on the staff report and bringing this forward. I know it was a timing issue. So I'm also very grateful that we're bringing it to you before also a primary that happens next week. The one thing I, because I totally agree with my colleague, is what a striking difference it is in the salaries, if they're in the docket, you can go look at them. But for our neighboring jurisdictions, they're making a lot more money than the rest of us up here and the ones who have been up here before. They're making in the hundreds of thousands and we're making 37 and 42, something along those lines. So I appreciate this being brought forward, being brought forward now after several months of work on it, and I do support this. I don't think it needs to be higher because we also have, we have 15 square miles of a city, whereas Fairfax is much larger, but Fairfax also is broken down into segments that are just as big as our city and just as engaged if not even less the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the Councilman Gaskins, then Councilman Shaven. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you to the staff for all of the work that has gone into this memo and the research to help us be informed about this decision. I'm gonna be joining in support of my colleagues' motion to increase the amount. And I just wanna say for me, I've been thinking a lot about the why and kind of why we're even having this conversation. And what keeps coming back to me is we have all been unwavering in our commitment to wanting to be a council that allows for more voices and more people to be a part of the decision-making. And I was looking at, you know, the Office of Housing, they have that great sheet that talks about the different wages people make in our community. You know, a librarian's at about 50K, a grocery worker's at 37K. A construction labor is at 41K. All of them have a perspective in terms of moving in this city, getting around, commuting to work, doing things for their children, going to our parks, serving in our community and their voices matter. But at the same time, there's no way they could serve on this council. I mean, the same chart talks about the average salary you need to rent a one-bedroom in this city is over $77,000. So even with an increase like this, they'd still be housing cost burden. And I think the current situation creates a structure where essentially you can only serve if you have another flexible job, if you have a six-figure salary, if you're independently wealthy or married and can give yourself numerous loans or other financial support, and I just think that's not the type of city we want to be. I think this is part of our goals around accessibility, diversity and inclusion, and compensating people fairly, while also acknowledging that this requires a lot of other expenses to be able to serve and to be the responsive council that our community deserves. So I thank you Councillor Meigheri for making that suggestion. I look forward to continuing the conversation with the public before Saturday, but I'm proud to join in supporting this measure. before Saturday, but I'm proud to join in supporting this measure. Okay. Councilman Chapman. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I appreciate the comments of my colleagues. Thank you to Governor Geary for putting this on the table. For me, I think it's really about how the position is continued to change over time. We are one of the few bodies that has very limited support in terms of each of us having a part time aid. And so as you kind of look at your government and look at counsel, we are doing kind of the policy work. We're not kind of giving it off to a staffer to do that work, which is not the same in other jurisdictions. And so you do have individuals up here who roll up their sleeve and get very detailed in the policy work that we have to do. I do think that is something that I would ask our community to consider. I would also ask folks to consider the fact that we are, if you read the document, it's actually pretty good in terms of talking about the differences between our position and other positions. We in the city know that we have different responsibilities as an independent city in Virginia. And so that does mean that you need to bring additional skills to the table. And if you don't already have those skills once you get on council, you have to get up to speed very quick. All of us know that. That are here and those that came before us. And I think for me, one of the biggest things that has changed is frankly, the engagement level on social media. I know when I first started, and very few of us were engaged on social media, I think most of us are pretty much engaged in social media. And so that adds a new the wrinkle to the position that did not exist a decade ago. And so I would consider, I'd ask our community consider that as well. I know we are still public servants. We are still doing this for the love of doing this for the love of the city. The compensation, I think for most of us, is not the thing and the reason why we are here. You just keep that in mind. I know as we look at how this salary might equate to other positions in our community. Again, we are not here for the money. Folks are here for the love and desire of their hometown or the town, the town that they are in at this point in their lives. And they want to see change and they're willing to roll up their sleeves and sacrifice their time and time away from their families to do that. And so I look forward to supporting this, look forward to hearing from the community as well. Thank you. Okay, Council Member Bagley. Thank you. I don't want to belabor the comments made by my colleagues, but just to pick up on the point made here by Council Member Chapman, we do all do it. We're not doing it for the money, but there are people who don't do it because of the way the money is structured. And I think that's important. who don't do it because of the way the money is structured. And I think that's important. We are all here not for the pay, but we are able to be here because we have other positions that are flexible enough and high paying enough. And so by making the salary moderately more competitive and bringing it closer to the 60 or 70% AMI level in the city, you are inviting others to consider pursuing this role and to consider running for this office. And so the one other thing I wanted to add, which again Council Member Chapman started to touch on, is I would also add 3-1-1 has changed this job. Certainly 15 years ago, there wasn't the app and the accessibility in the same way. And it continues to get better, so we continue to get more and the expectations go up. So along with social media, I think 311 has also changed the nature of the job. So appreciate all the detail and the memorandum, the effort that went into this. My colleague for the motion and I intend to support it as well. this my colleague for the motion and I intend to support it as well. Mr. Manager, I just wanted to add one thing for the community. So this the any compensation has not been adjusted in the last six years. So there's been costs, changes and pressures and inflation and things like that. The other aspect I just want to make sure the community is aware of is that once this gets established, it does not change for another three years. So that needs to be thought of as well. And then the final piece is I think it's, as you look at the memo, we looked at comparable compensations, we looked at inflation and cost factors. The analysis also looked at the complexity of our government that's an independent city and the complexity of issues particularly as a regional leader. And then consistency about compensation, how we've approached that. I just wanted to highlight a couple of those things. I think that the analysis clearly shows that even the average comparable for the Northern Virginia region, which is all your colleagues that you participate with, you are at the lowest end today, substantially, and that even with a recommended adjustment, you would still be at the, almost at the average, but you would not be at the high end at all. And just to remind everyone again, at six years, you've not had, and there's been no adjustment to this, and then this counts for another three years. I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I I work in the United States Congress and members of Congress have not had their salary increase since 2008 and The result of that you see is different kinds of people are willing to take on the job of running for Congress and The life that they're leaving is often very different because they're not able to actually afford to live in DC And in their district you have members sleeping in their offices, which is just a huge safety challenge. And it is always such a scary thing for elected officials to bring up this topic. But I think we have a community that understands the work that we do here that understands the numbers laid out in the manager's memo. This is a wonderful job. It's a wonderful job. You can tell because six-sevenths of us are seeking to continue doing it. And one of them has done it for a long time. Uh, and, but it's also, this job is like a gas. It'll expand a fill in space that you give it. And it's a sacrifice not for us, but for our families and our friends, the folks who don't get to see us. And it's worth it because we get to do things that matter. We need to make changes that impact people's lives. And we get to deal with everything from trash cans to streets to housing policies, to big challenges related to state and local federal governments. So I think it is appropriate not only that we consider this now, but I think we need to be doing this every three years. The council should be reconsidering this every three years, and if we need to write into the ordinance that it has to come up, I would actually support that so that we don't allow another six year break to happen that we try to keep not for us, because we don't raise our own salaries or raise the next one, but keep the current and future of the future council of the city more competitive with their regional comparators to make it possible, as my colleagues have said, for other people to come and take the risk and the leap, make the leap to try to serve in this office. So I appreciate the city staff for being so thoughtful about this. I appreciate the residents who have written in on about this, almost all of them have been very, I think, supportive of the questions that we're raising here. And I do think my colleague for raising his amendment, which I will be supporting. Councilman Chairman. One little thing that I forget about my why, and one of the reasons why I'm going to be supporting this, I think this council has set up the next council to be forced to be more active, more involved in the community, or outside of this building. As we head into the West End, as we make sure all of our residents feel the representation, I think that's something that this council is already pushing forward as we look at kind of what the next council is going to have to do. So I think that, please keep that in mind as well, because it's going to be a different feel of council regardless of the people on it, because of what this council has kind of said forward as what we want to see. Councilman Higer. And thank you because I, to Mr. to the Councilman of Pike because as we were, as everyone was giving their comments and I was agreeing, I was like, oh, it is not an easy conversation to bring up. It's never a good time. But to what you brought up, it's actually in the E of the ordinance. It says the rate of compensation of the members of city council in the mayor shall be reviewed every three years. So I think this is something that we need to normalize. And for the public to know just because we're gonna review it, doesn't mean we're actually gonna do it. It's just a way for us to be able to normalize this conversation. So it's not as difficult to try and bring up. So. All right. Other questions? I would just note for Council Member Pike, if you go broader in history, this is actually the Council in the last 20 years, this is 2024, so in the last 20 years, the Council has increased salary once. So this is, I do agree that we have to get out of this kind of waiting a while and doing one big increase because I think it. There's more of a negative reaction to that and so having some process where we. We look at this regularly and actually formally bring it forward. I know state code says we can't have it automatic. We can't have it automatic, but at least like Councilman McGurray noted, we have language in the ordinance that allows us to review it. Because I think having some kind of normal process where we're just taking the cost of living for the previous three years and applying it to the salary is probably a much more easily defensible and explainable process for the community. So, I think it's a lot of things that we've been doing for the past two years and applying it to the salary is probably much more easily defensible and explainable process for the community. So, unless we have any further discussion, we have a motion in a second to introduce on first reading schedule for final pass, public hearing is final passage on Saturday. The ordinance is adjusting to city Council salary. Hearing no further discussion, all those in favor, please be nice to say. I'm, I'm, I'll put a say name. The eyes have it. All right, Madam Clerk, oral presentations. Sorry, I said it. I'm Councillor Remember Bagley. And Councillor McGurray. And Councillor McPig. Is it me to start? The Council and Guest. Okay. Oh, what do I order? Remember Bagley. Okay. Well, I just wanted to, I think we'll probably, the Brady organization does a focus on June 21st and since that kind of falls in between our meeting dates, I just wanted to mention that June 21st is what they call Ask Day. And it is focused on the concept that asking saves kids and this is a gun violence prevention effort. And the focus is to ask about guns in the home, to ask about storage, to ask are there any unlock guns in your home? And so I'm just uplifting this. It's June 21st, keep an eye out on social media and other press information about Ask Day, which is June 21st, 2024. And I'm just encouraging the community to ask those questions. You would ask if there's peanut butter or cats or other things that kids have issues with. So please make sure to ask when you're doing play dates and birthday parties and other visits to other people's homes whether there are any unlocked guns in the home and can they be secured thank you. Okay thank you Councilman Bagley Councilman Egrig. Thank you Mr. Mayor apologies if I take anybody's thing but another seven of us we'll have a perspective when we go to an event so please feel free to repeat anything. Don't feel free to repeat it. So very excited back on May 29th we had the ribbon cutting for many Howard we've talked about that a lot. So a beautiful building. Hopefully we can give some towards to the public. We'll see, but I know it's a, you know, it's a school, so it's difficult. And told they are scheduling public open this summer. Wonderful, wonderful. Okay. I had the opportunity to stop by the newest ABC store opening on Washington Street with Councilman Chapman. We were inspecting the inventory, things were looking very nice. So I don't know about all that. Yeah. I'll also wanted to give a shout out to Project Discovery. They were giving their awards for their students. And then a good reminder for those students that are becoming alumni, because there was an alumni there that applied for their alumni grant and they got it. So remember, stay in touch with your program because if you get additional money after you leave, take advantage of it. Also shout out to the police department and all the resources that I go into our cookouts. We had a great one in Andrew Atkins. It was trying to rain on us, but it cannot dampen everyone's mood. We still had a great time. Also, Kassathutu Lawa, Greg, turn out there. We went through a lot of the food and everything else. Really, really moving a D-Day commemoration on June 2nd, Salam day, but also celebration. So it's special to be here in Alexandria and to be able to have some of these commemorations and the connectivity that we have, not just a history, but across the world and the globe. It's just really moving sometimes. We also have the opportunity to be out here in Market Square again on the seventh for where Orange Day for guns since Laos. for gun sense laws. And I can't read my own writing, but on June 8th, there was the men's health empowerment expo. So thank you to all the organizers and the health department for putting that together. At Charles Houston, a lot of really, really good vendors. And yesterday, the majority of us were at the dedication for the Judy nori Taki Park and the mayor had some really, really great comments and history and backstory and you know her influence will be felt for generations to come. Thank you, Councilman McGarry, Councilman McPike and Councilman Gaskins and Councilman Chapman. Yeah, I only have two items. The first is I've been in communication with some residents from North Early Street, which is next to the brand new Midi Howard campus, which we are all at the opening of. Congratulations ACPS on the construction of the beautiful school. There's concern in that community about parking overflow from students and maybe even staff on the new school, which previous school is a ninth grade center with no student parking. Coming into their neighborhoods, they've been talking with staff about this. We're trying to figure out a course of action about encourage my colleagues to speak with the neighbors as well. It doesn't appear that we have proactive options. And I think that might be something we need to think about in situations like this when we might be creating a situation that we build proactivity into how we respond to these things. And then on a different matter, I would just like to thank the Department of Transportation Environmental Services and everyone who was involved with the Pride Festival on June 1st, it was a wonderful, wonderful event and we opened the new Pride Crosswalks. I got to go out the night that they're being constructed thanks to a timely message from the mayor saying that it was underway, which let me go out and I was with Brian Knight from Tess watching them melt these things into the asphalt there, the freshly paved asphalt, and we opened them with the beautiful dash bus riding through the ribbon and not hitting any of us, which is probably ideal in doing so. And I think the perception that we've heard from the public to these have been wonderful. And I really just thank everyone on council for supporting this initiative, I'm not sure if you're sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you're not sure that you that deadline and getting it open. Pride month is only a month long, but there's going to be a part of that pride and a symbol of Alexandria's inclusive values right there in front of City Hall every single day of every year. Thanks to y'all. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Councilman. I'm quite if I'm going to ask Vice Mayor to go jump in here real quick to respond to some. And then get back in line. Thank you for bringing that up. I know there are 152 parking spaces at Minnie Howard and the seniors or any students are still going to be asked if they're driving. They still have to park at Chinca Pant on the circle, like I did back in the day. But with talking about that, I know that neighborhood would like to see some type of, becoming a parking district or something as we are moving forward that it may be a second high school and a high school system, in a one high school system. But that is the concern and I know the students still, so just FYI, the students going to many Howard in the fall must park over at the King Street campus. There is no parking at the school campus on Braddock. So, and then we should do something because I know that's been brought forward. Yeah, right, parking restrictions. Yep, strict. Thank you. Certainly done some more restrictions all around the King Street campus. So Councilwoman Gascans. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you, Councilwoman McGuirey, because I think this must have been the handwriting you could not read. But I'm glad I got one. Last weekend, Councilwoman McGuirey and I had the opportunity to go to Ramsey Recreation Center, where we joined Nova Raft, which stands for Northern Virginia Resettling Afghan Families Together, as well as Fresh Start Refugee Assistance Center, and we recognize the hard work of over 60 newly arrived Afghan refugees at Hammond Middle School, as well as Alexandria City High School. All of these students have completed one year of literacy classes. One young person, they improved over five levels, and then there were several who improved over four levels. We also celebrated recognitions that they received in art, history, and other programs throughout the year. So it was just a really beautiful celebration to see all of their families and to just recognize the amazing progress that they achieved in such a short time. And if anyone is interested, they are going to be launching a summer program also at Ramsey and another at John Adams Elementary School where they're aiming to have over 100 kids with the highest literacy needs in our city having classes as well as field trips and skill building activities so that they're prepared for school in the fall. Okay, Councilman Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. A couple hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. I can hear you. the historic nature of all town. And I want to be very clear in saying that one of the things that you may have understood that we did earlier as we let, as we recognize the retirement of Patricia Washington is talked about the fact that we as a city are still talking about our full history. We know that we have a number of individuals who would identify with LGBTQIA plus community in the city's history that have done work in building up this community. And it is nothing but recognizing them as a part of our whole history that we are doing with this. And so for those individuals who want to actually try to demean the opportunity to have this crosswalk, to pay homage to those folks, recognize those folks, even if we don't know their individual stories, is out of line with what we talk about as it relates to the historic preservation and recognition of all of the individuals that have helped build up this community. Secondly, on another note, going to the men's empowerment event, I want to give special thanks to Nishel Tarell who pulled this in a number of individuals together to put this on. It was a tremendous event. I will say as a guy, I do not always recognize some of the health needs and health screenings that I need to do. And so I'm adding and opening up another opportunity for men to get together to look at how they need to take care of themselves was so necessary. And it was great again to see city staff there with such a positive attitude for engaging the participants. In particular, there was a gentleman and I forgot his name, I apologize, from the drug treatment department who was teaching people within, I think it was like a minute or a minute and a half how to use Narcan. And that was something that with the within, I think it was like a minute or a minute and a half how to use Narcan. And that was something that with the opioid epidemic so necessary for individuals in our community to know. I think I'm going to post my little video of me learning how to do it so hopefully people can see. But if you ever have a chance to engage with city staff to learn about this, you may be able to save the life and help someone in our community. And then lastly, I want to bring attention to this upcoming Saturday the 15th, the local NAACP in Alfred Street are partnering to do an expungement clinic as well. I know we've had expungement clinics in the past, and I think this is just gonna be another opportunity for local folks to get that support. And so if you know anybody that might need to attend that event, please reach out to them and let me know or feel free to reach out to me and I can share additional information. But I believe that's gonna be at Alford Street at 10-0, 10-A-M on Saturday. Thank you. Okay. Vice. on Saturday. Thank you. Okay. Vice-Marcheis. Thank you. So a few things this past weekend. We had the 20th anniversary of Act for Alexandria. So it was a great festival atmosphere at Canal Center, celebrating, celebrating not just act and everything they've done for Alexandria and the nonprofit organizations that are under them, but act has been such an integral part of our community through the pandemic, through I know we've got youth council, we have so many opportunities for people to get involved, but I know I was bringing up a couple of situations where they've given seed money to nonprofits as they are starting out because they saw a need in the community and knew that those organizations would fill it. So congratulations to ACT for, they're gonna keep going strong. I know it, I can't believe it's been 20 years, but congratulations to Heather Pieler and her team over there. Another thing I was able to attend last Thursday night was the Friends of Guest House. It was their 50th anniversary. It was a fabulous event on the rooftop of ALX community, the atrium, and it was a celebration of the women that have gone through those doors and come out those doors stronger and empowered after being incarcerated but finding their path and their mentors to give back to society. One of the things honestly that came out of a lot of my discussions with them that night was how can the city help partner with friends of guesthouse and figure out a way that we can start a job creation for those women looking to that have been trained while incarcerated to to have certain jobs. Why isn't the city partnering with them to lead them on that path of success as they're at guest house, you know, which has been the same guest house for 50 years. But anyway, I congratulate them. Definitely, most of them are success stories and just women's empowerment. So we appreciate them, and I appreciate being at that 50th. And then the last one was community lodgings, I believe it was their 30th, the other night I believe it was their 30th the other night at, not was on the waterfront, very nice at another ALX community. So I also wanna actually give a shout out to Kelly Grant who has always been stellar in helping these nonprofits saying yes, we have some space, absolutely. You can come here and have your event with us. No problem. So thank you, Kelly Grant for that. But community lodgings. Lynn Thomas, of course, has been an absolute rock over there for so many years, making sure that our affordable housing and vulnerable populations are taking care of with the utmost respect and care and consideration and it's just, I love my community, I just love Alexandria. But so congratulations to them. I know they also, one of the things that community lodgings does, not just lodgings, they have a weekender program for their students and honestly, any students that are not getting fed during the weekends. And I know we've discussed this up here as a council as well. The food insecurities of students as they, you know, they're off on spring break, they're off on winter break, they're off on summer break, they're off on winter break, they're off on summer break. But on the weekends too, and how are those children getting fed? And that's where it leads back to. We have one of the highest still alive season every day. That's why we have two food hubs, but this is where we need to continue to provide food for those that cannot pay for themselves, if they still need to pay rent or mortgage. There's just no way around it right now. So thank you to community lodging. It also has that Weekender Program for our students. So they're not wondering where the next meal is going to come from. So again, very appreciative of all the work that these nonprofits have done in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. A couple of updates and then some comments from me. So, to build on Councilman Geary's update regarding the D-Day event, I do want to, it was a great event and I do want to thank our chair of the Consistor's Committee on Jolique Mars as well as Jenny Redding, former chair who took on organization of that event. We have representatives from the French military, the British military, and the Canadian military, as well as the United States military two different branches. So I want to thank all of them for participating and helping us pay tribute to that incredible battle that ultimately changed the course of world history. And created a legacy of peace, unfortunately, that's being threatened right now in the European continent. I mentioned during my speech that day and my colleagues are certainly aware I went straight from that event to the airport and went back to France at the invitation of Mayor Brunot of our sister city of Con. It was, I had the opportunity to go this time with Angelique Moss, who is the chair of our sister city committee. We had an incredible visit and were able to participate in both the American ceremony at the American Cemetery in Normandy with the President of the United States and the President of the French Republic, as well as Secretary of Defense and a number of many other people. And then we also had the opportunity to participate in the International Ceremony a few hours later on Omaha Beach, a few hundred yards up, and with a whole bunch of world leaders. And both extremely powerful ceremonies, as well as a lot of other events during the week and at the opportunity to meet a few of the veterans and talk with them. And this is, unfortunately, probably the last of the major anniversaries that there will be veterans able to attend. The youngest American veteran who attended this time was 96 years old. That's the youngest. And so those are obviously an incredible generation and one that pushback tyranny in Europe and pushback tyranny in our world. And if you ever get an opportunity to walk that cemetery, I encourage you to do so. It is a humbling experience and one that is something that will stay with you forever. But I do want to recognize our sister city con for being such great hosts and having us back as well as we have the opportunity to have a number of the city of the city. And I'm sure that the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of our, of Alexandria and our first cousins, I don't know what you call them. They were there as well and Khan has much more expansive relationships with a lot of those other communities and so a lot of opportunities on both cultural exchanges, business exchanges, including economic development initiatives and other efforts that Y'all who will be up here for the next three years can work on. Although I know our chair of the the Sister City Committee is already hard to work on how we address some of those opportunities. So, the state tuned, I think, the folks in Conner very interested in that as well. So, second thing I want to mention, back in April, I provided input on behalf of the council to the General Assembly and Advanced Reconvince session regarding a whole variety of things being considered. But one of the things I mentioned in the letter that we sent related to skill games. And for whatever reason, and I am at a loss as to why this is the major priority enrichment right now. But for whatever reason, this issue, despite being unable to come to an agreement on legislation during the General Assembly session, might not be done for this year, and so there is a discussion that is part of the ongoing special session, which is actually not adjourned, that there may be future consideration of legislation, and I think there was some bipartisan proposals in the last couple days to bring that issue back for a future session of the General Assembly in the next couple weeks. I think the message that we delivered back in April is that whatever they do come up with, if this is such a big priority, that it maintain local control and maintain the ability of local governments to regulate these uses in our community. And we had a conversation earlier tonight about some of the expanded authority they gave us related to the location of businesses, certain types of businesses that are selling things that are potentially harmful. And I think this is part and parcel with that. So it may be who us, and I can circulate something later, but it may be who us to provide further input given this issue is being considered. Again, re-emphasizing that matter for the general assembly, because I think it is very important that if they pass anything, if they re-enable, relegalyze essentially these uses in our city and around the Commonwealth, that they do so with, in a way, that local government has authority to regulate. So, and yeah, and so one other thing I want to talk about, and I do hate to end on a sour note, but I do think it's important to note. So, you know, this is election times are always a very difficult time for the city government as we work very hard and certainly I have tried to during my time up here to insulate the city government from the vagaries of politics to the extent possible. And certainly as we get closer and closer to primaries in general elections that becomes extremely difficult. But it is very important that we do so. I think the integrity of our government and the processes is at stake. And one of the things we try to very hard to do is to avoid politicizing our city staff and the work that they do. We have an administrative regulation that says that we're not going to be in the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of the city of something that is a very important rule in one that we do not violate in council members themselves should never be in a position where that is happening and they are part of that situation. I became aware of a political direct mail piece that was sent that pictured a former uniformed department head in uniform on duty and was mailed to voters in the city implying an endorsement of a city staff member of a candidate for office in the city. That's wrong, it shouldn't happen, and nobody up here should be a part of that. The city government does not endorse candidates, members of our city staff do not endorse candidates, members of our city staff do not use their city position to suggest that they are involved in campaigning. We all took an ethics pledge when we were sworn in in January of 21, or sorry January of 22, and even putting that aside, it's important that we always uphold the spirit of that. My understanding is, in this case, the department head who was pictured did not get permission for his picture to be used, which certainly makes it worse, but not really relevant to what we do up here. I'm not trying to enter into a long conversation on this except to say city staff to the extent anyone is concerned or confused. City staff does not endorse, does not get involved in these things and they will continue doing their job at the highest professional level to serve all 160,000 residents of the city without favor and do so in the right way. So that's it for me on this topic. So all right. Are there any other oral updates? All right. Hearing none, we moved to number 36, the consideration of the City Council calendar. Madam Clerk, I'm doing your job tonight. I don't know why. That's my fault. I'm sorry. Madam Clerk, number 36. Let's consideration of City Council Council. Here we go. Sorry about that. There's an emotional by Council of Integrity. It's been second of eye Councilman Chapman to approve the approval of the calendar. Council member Bagley. Can I just mention one item in the context of calendar? The Waterfront Commission has added their annual, like, Waterfront Walk for 7 a.m. on June 15th. So all of you will be available. I'm so many Gary just said he is excited. He cannot wait to be there. He is really pumped about this event. In case more than two of you have some more detail on it. I'll pick him up. Yeah, can you, yeah, can you pick him up? That would be really good. I'll pick him up on my bike. You might want to pick him up the night before, by the way, just to be just to be sure, just the amount on the water. Yeah, that's it. And in case it didn't my colleagues wanted to join us at 7 a. walk. I'll mark my counter on that. Yeah. So, all right. Are there any other additions to the the calendar? Okay. I do want to note, there's been some questions and I just want to make sure everyone's aware. The Alexander Birthday Party, the 275th Alexander Birthdayay party is Saturday, July 13th. I know some people were concerned that it should have been on the 6th. It is Saturday, July 13th. So just wanna make sure everyone's aware of that. All right, there's been a motion to second to approve the calendar. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, please come to my saying aye. Aye Hearing none all those in favor please. I'm going to say hi. I'm all posting name the eyes have it is our motion adjourned second motion by councilmember Pike Seconded by councilmember Bagley Wow Wow. Wow. People are getting excited. All right, as most of the second, any further discussion hearing none? All this in favor, please be nice. I'm. I'm. I'm saying aye. I's having a night. See you. Sarah, please tell the water conditions. The stuff you're going to be on the date is no one is going to get you. I'm going to be on the date. I'm going to be on the date Thank you. you you you you